[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

[Ron Adam]

On 03/29/2014 04:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> >>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:)

Yes, and we don't have nones for lists and tuples, or spaces for strings.

;-)

Ron