[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?)

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 4 September 2016 at 00:11, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, at 18:06, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
> > I guess one reason I don't like bchr (nor chrb, really) is that they
> > look just like a random sequence of letters in builtins, but not
> > recognizable the way asdf would be.
> >
> > I guess I have one last pair of suggestions for the name of this
> > function: bytes.chr or bytes.char.
>
> What about byte? Like, not bytes.byte, just builtins.byte.
>

I like this option, it would be very "symmetric" to have, compare:

>>>chr(42)
'*'
>>>str()
''

with this:

>>>byte(42)
b'*'
>>>bytes()
b''

It is easy to explain and remember this.

--
Ivan
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