[issue1023290] Conversion of longs to bytes and vice-versa.

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> added the comment:

Here's a new patch incorporating the suggestions I received on python-ideas.

Notable changes are:

  - The name of the methods have been changed to int.tobytes() and
    int.frombytes().
  - The tri-state `little_endian' argument has been removed in favor
    of the `byteorder' argument which takes either the string
    'little' or 'big'.
  - The `byteorder' argument has to be specified explicitly.
  - The variable-length version of int.tobytes() has been removed.
  - The `fixed_length' argument has been renamed to `length'. 
  - The `signed' argument is now keyword-only and now defaults to False.

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assignee:  -> alexandre.vassalotti
components: +Interpreter Core
stage:  -> patch review
title: proposed struct module format code addition -> Conversion of longs to bytes and vice-versa.
versions: +Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14739/long_and_bytes_conversion-2.diff

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