[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 29 22:31:35 CET 2014


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> This subthread is confirming my original instinct to just avoid the
> problem entirely because *either* choice is inevitably confusing for a
> non-trivial subset of users :)

How about just calling it "zero"? There's really no need
for it to be plural.

After all, we refer to int(0) as just "zero", even though
there may be more than one zero bit in its representation.

I really don't like "allnull", it just sounds wrong, too
ascii-centric.

-- 
Greg


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