[Python-Dev] PEP 467: next round

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jul 18 18:00:41 EDT 2016


On 07/18/2016 02:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 at 14:35 Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Jonathan Goble wrote:

>>> full(), despite its use in numpy, is also unintuitive to me (my first
>>> thought is that it would indicate whether an object has room for more
>>> entries).
>>>
>>> Perhaps bytes.fillsize?
>>
>> I wouldn't want to see bytes.full() either.  Maybe bytes.of_size()?
>
> Or bytes.fromsize() to stay with the trend of naming constructor methods
>  as from*() ?

bytes.fromsize() sounds good to me, thanks for brainstorming that one for
me.  I wasn't really happy with 'size()' either.

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~Ethan~


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