[Python-3000] Does bytes() need to support bytes(<str>, <encoding>)?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 28, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>> Nope.  So what would bytes(s) do?
>
> Raise TypeError (when s is a str). The argument to bytes() must be
> either an int (then it creates a zero-filled bytes bytes array of that
> length) or an iterable of ints (then it creates a bytes array
> initialized with those ints -- if any int is out of range, an
> exception is raised, and also if any value is not an int).

+1
- -Barry

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