[New-bugs-announce] [issue40085] Argument parsing option c should accept int between -128 to 255 ?

[tzickel]

New submission from tzickel <icebreak at yahoo.com>:

I converted some code from python to c-api and was surprised that a code stopped working.

Basically the "c" parsing option allows for 1 char bytes or bytearray inputs and converts them to a C char.

But just as indexing a bytes array returns an int, so should this option support it. i.e. b't'[0] = 116

Not sure if it should limit between 0 to 255 or -128 to 127.

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components: C API
messages: 365139
nosy: tzickel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Argument parsing option c should accept int between -128 to 255 ?
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9

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