[Python-Dev] PEP 467: next round

[Nick Coghlan]

On 19 July 2016 at 08:00, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 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.

Heh, I should have finished reading the thread before replying - this
and one of my other comments were already picked up :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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