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

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2016 at 00:11, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, at 18:06, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>> > I guess one reason I don't like bchr (nor chrb, really) is that they
>> > look just like a random sequence of letters in builtins, but not
>> > recognizable the way asdf would be.
>> >
>> > I guess I have one last pair of suggestions for the name of this
>> > function: bytes.chr or bytes.char.
>>
>> What about byte? Like, not bytes.byte, just builtins.byte.
>
>
> I like this option, it would be very "symmetric" to have, compare:
>
>>>>chr(42)
> '*'
>>>>str()
> ''
>
> with this:
>
>>>>byte(42)
> b'*'
>>>>bytes()
> b''
>
> It is easy to explain and remember this.

In one way, I like it, but on the other hand, indexing a bytes gives
an integer, so maybe a 'byte' is just an integer in range(256). Also,
having both byte and bytes would be a slight annoyance with
autocomplete.

-- Koos