[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 29 22:06:29 CET 2014


Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Please get this right. Zeroes. Two 'e's.
> 
> Otherwise I will feel pain every time I encounter zeros. Looks Greek.

I sympathi{s,z}e, but I feel that having it inconsistent
with with numpy would cause more pain overall.

Ah, I know -- Python should treat identifiers ending in
"-os" and "-oes" as equivalent! That would solve all
problems of this kind once and for all.

"import oes"-ly y'rs,
Greg


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