[Python-ideas] Direct byte<->int conversions (was Re: bitwise operations on bytes)
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Aug 10 15:38:36 CEST 2009
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at ...> writes:
>
> int.to_bytes(data, *, size=0, little_endian=None, signed=True)
It would be better IMO if this method belonged to the target type, so that you
can write `bytearray.from_int()` without going through an intermediate bytes
object.
What if `data` is equal to 0? Does it return an empty bytes object? It doesn't
look dangerous to do so, so I'd say go for it.
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