[issue29178] Adding bytes.frombuffer(byteslike) constructor

[Yury Selivanov]

Yury Selivanov added the comment:

> This is just a two-liner:
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>    with memoryview(bytelike) as m:
>        bs = bytes(m[start:end])

Which virtually no one follows :(


> Adding new method to builtin type has high bar. I doubts that there are enough use cases in which bytes.frombuffer() has an advantage.

Any protocol parsing code has a lot of slicing.

> The signature of bytes.frombuffer() looks questionable. Why length and offset instead of start and stop indices as in slices? Why length is first and offset is last? This contradicts the interface of Python 2 buffer(), socket.sendfile(), os.sendfile(), etc.

I propose to make both arguments keyword-only.

> There is also a problem with returned type for subclasses (this is always a problem for alternate constructors).

Good point. How do we usually solve this in CPython?

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