On 07.06.16 23:28, Ethan Furman wrote:
Minor changes: updated version numbers, add punctuation.
The current text seems to take into account Guido's last comments.
Thoughts before asking for acceptance?
PEP: 467 Title: Minor API improvements for binary sequences Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 2014-03-30 Python-Version: 3.5 Post-History: 2014-03-30 2014-08-15 2014-08-16
Abstract ========
During the initial development of the Python 3 language specification, the core ``bytes`` type for arbitrary binary data started as the mutable type that is now referred to as ``bytearray``. Other aspects of operating in the binary domain in Python have also evolved over the course of the Python 3 series.
This PEP proposes four small adjustments to the APIs of the ``bytes``, ``bytearray`` and ``memoryview`` types to make it easier to operate entirely in the binary domain:
* Deprecate passing single integer values to ``bytes`` and ``bytearray`` * Add ``bytes.zeros`` and ``bytearray.zeros`` alternative constructors * Add ``bytes.byte`` and ``bytearray.byte`` alternative constructors * Add ``bytes.iterbytes``, ``bytearray.iterbytes`` and ``memoryview.iterbytes`` alternative iterators
"Byte" is an alias to "octet" (8-bit integer) in modern terminology. Iterating bytes and bytearray already produce bytes. Wouldn't this be confused? May be name these methods "iterbytestrings", since they adds str-like behavior?