[Ironpython-users] IronPython, Daily Digest 8/23/2014

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In today's digest:ISSUES

1. [New issue] bytearray constructor should accept string

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ISSUES

1. [New issue] bytearray constructor should accept string
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/35493
User paweljasinski has proposed the issue:

"as reported on mailing list by Daniel Fernandez:

CPython 2.7.8
>>> hex_string = "deadbeef"
>>> hex_data = hex_string.decode("hex")
>>> hex_data
'\xde\xad\xbe\xef'
>>> bytearray(hex_data)
bytearray(b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef')

IronPython 2.7.5 Beta
 >>> hex_string = "deadbeef"
>>> hex_data = hex_string.decode("hex")
>>> hex_data
u'\xde\xad\xbe\xef'
>>> bytearray(hex_data)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unicode argument without an encoding

>>> bytearray(hex_data, 'hex')
bytearray(b'deadbeef')
"
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