It probably won't fly but why not bytes.frombyte? There's no such thing as a byte type in Python, only bytes, so I want to argue it makes it clear the argument is a number in the range 0..255 and the result is a bytes object containing this single byte value. Tentatively, Arnaud PS. But truly I feel like this method is superfluous. On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 11:11, Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> wrote:
I proposed bytes.byte earlier in this thread: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KBVVBJL2...
Gregory dislikes the name: "I don't *like* to argue over names (the last stage of anything) but I do need to point out how that sounds to read". https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/DGJWM3VM...
That's why I proposed: bytes.fromchar(). I still like bytes.byte() :-)
Victor
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:07 AM Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 18:55:04 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
P.S. The fact that it *didn't* look like the inverse operation for `int.from_bytes` was one advantage of calling the method `bytes.fromord` instead of `bytes.fromint`, but I'm still happy the SC is right that `bytes.fromint` is a more comprehensible method name overall.
Perhaps we can call it `bytes.byte` to make it unambiguous?
Regards
Antoine.
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