[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 March 2014 17:52, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>> On 29Mar2014 01:16, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> > Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> > >If I could consistently remember whether to include the "e" or not,
>> > >"zeroes" would be my preference as well, but almost every time I go to
>> > >type it, I have to pause...
>> >
>> > Whichever you choose, please make sure it's the same as
>> > whatever numpy uses!
>>
>> Please get this right. Zeroes. Two 'e's.
>>
>> Otherwise I will feel pain every time I encounter zeros. Looks Greek.
>
> zeros is way more popular than zeroes:
>
> https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=zeroes%2Czeros&year_start=1900&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Czeroes%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Czeros%3B%2Cc0

This subthread is confirming my original instinct to just avoid the
problem entirely because *either* choice is inevitably confusing for a
non-trivial subset of users :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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