On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:21 PM Ethan Furman wrote:
> The difference with the built-in ascii is the absence of extra quotes and the
> `b` indicator when a string is used:
>
> ```
> >>> u_var = u'abc'
> >>> bytes.ascii(u_var)
> b'abc'
What about bytes, bytearray and memoryview? What is the expec
On 11/8/21 4:45 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Is it implement "like" ascii(obj).encode("ascii") but with minor
> changes? What changes?
It works like `str()`, but you get ascii-encoded bytes (or an exception if
that's not possible).
The difference with the built-in ascii is the absence of extra
The ascii() constructor is not well specified by the PEP. There are
only a few examples. I don't understand how it's supposed by be
implemented. Would you mind to elaborate its specification?
Is it implement "like" ascii(obj).encode("ascii") but with minor
changes? What changes?
Victor
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:59 AM Jonathan Goble wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:37 AM Eric Fahlgren wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:01 AM Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
>>> >>> bytearray.fromsize(5, fill=b'\x0a')
>>> bytearray(b'\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a')
>>
>>
>> What happens if you su
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:37 AM Eric Fahlgren
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:01 AM Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> >>> bytearray.fromsize(5, fill=b'\x0a')
>> bytearray(b'\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a')
>>
>
> What happens if you supply more than one byte for the fill argument?
> Silent truncation,
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:01 AM Ethan Furman wrote:
> >>> bytearray.fromsize(5, fill=b'\x0a')
> bytearray(b'\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a')
>
What happens if you supply more than one byte for the fill argument?
Silent truncation, raise ValueError('too long') or ???
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