[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Mar2014 10:31, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, "zero" reads like a verb. One might zero an array, for example.
As a noun it would imply exactly one.

It's a good idea though; I guess I'm -0 purely for verb/noun reasons.

If numpy already has zeros() with a very similar meaning I would
live with the misspelling for the sake of consistency. If the numpy
zeros does something different then it would carry no weight with
me.

Hoping for something more betterer,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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