[issue45155] Add default arguments for int.to_bytes()
Barry A. Warsaw
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 10 12:37:09 EDT 2021
Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:
Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Exactly, a platform-dependent default is a bad idea. A default allows using the function without the code author & reviewer even being *aware* that there is a choice, and that is dangerous.
I’m not convinced. I’m more concerned with the obscurity of the API. If I saw its use in some code I was reviewing, I’d look it up, and then I’d know exactly what it was doing.
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