[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 September 2016 at 03:54, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
> chrb seems to be more in line with some bytes versions in for instance os
> than bchr.

The mnemonic for the current name in the PEP is that bchr is to chr as
b"" is to "". The PEP should probably say that in addition to pointing
out the 'unichr' Python 2 inspiration, though.

The other big difference between this and the os module case, is that
the resulting builtin constructor pairs here are str/chr (arbitrary
text, single code point) and bytes/bchr (arbitrary binary data, single
binary octet). By contrast, os.getcwd() and os.getcwdb() (and similar
APIs) are both referring to the same operating system level operation,
they're just requesting a different return type for the data.

Cheers,
Nick.

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