[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 467: Minor API improvements for bytes & bytearray

[Nick Coghlan]

On 18 Aug 2014 08:55, "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2014, at 08:48 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >Calling it bytes is too confusing:
> >
> >    for x in bytes(data):
> >       ...
> >
> >    for x in bytes(data).bytes()
> >
> >When referring to bytes, which bytes do you mean, the builtin or the
method?
> >
> >iterbytes() isn't especially attractive as a method name, but it's far
more
> >explicit about its purpose.
>
> I don't know.  How often do you really instantiate the bytes object there
in
> the for loop?

I'm talking more generally - do you *really* want to be explaining that
"bytes" behaves like a tuple of integers, while "bytes.bytes" behaves like
a tuple of bytes?

Namespaces are great and all, but using the same name for two different
concepts is still inherently confusing.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> -Barry
>
>
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