[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-12-17 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset beac7d6c7be4 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.2': Issue #11231: Fix bytes and bytearray docstrings http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/beac7d6c7be4 New changeset dc670add1e28 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11231: Fix bytes and bytearray d

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-12-17 Thread brendel
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[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-12-17 Thread brendel
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[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-12-17 Thread brendel
brendel added the comment: Here is a patch for the docstring of bytes and bytesarray. -- nosy: +brendel Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23989/patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-12-17 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: Oooh, I missed the important sentence "Accordingly, constructor arguments are interpreted as for bytearray()." The 5 constructors are documented in bytearray doc: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functions.html#bytearray -- resolution: -> works fo

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-02-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: You sort of left out bytes() == bytes(0) == b''. I did not know about case 5 -- not surprisingly ;-). -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-02-18 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-02-17 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: > These are AFAIR the same. So the docstring should also maybe be updated too: $ python >>> help(bytes) Help on class bytes in module builtins: class bytes(object) | bytes(iterable_of_ints) -> bytes | bytes(string, encoding[, errors]) -> bytes | bytes(b

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-02-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > 3) bytes(bytes_or_buffer) -> immutable copy of bytes_or_buffer > 4) bytes(memory_view) -> bytes These are AFAIR the same. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker __

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

2011-02-17 Thread STINNER Victor
New submission from STINNER Victor : There are 5 different usages of the bytes() constructor: 1) bytes(iterable_of_ints) -> bytes 2) bytes(string, encoding[, errors]) -> bytes 3) bytes(bytes_or_buffer) -> immutable copy of bytes_or_buffer 4) bytes(memory_view) -> bytes 5) bytes(int) <=> b'\0' *