On 9/9/21 12:04 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Except that .to_bytes already exists, and arguably should have had such
defaults from the
> beginning, making any new function to do the same thing superfluous.
New functions aren't always about new functionality; sometimes they are about
increased usability.
Everything in the PEP can already be accomplished, just not easily:
bstr = b'hello world'
bchr = bstr.getbyte(7) # proposed
bchr = bstr[7:8] # existing
for bchr in bstr.iterbytes(): # proposed
...
for num in bstr: # existing
bchr = bytes([bchr])
bchr = bytes.fromint(65) # proposed
bchr = bytes([65]) # existing
--
~Ethan~
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