[Python-ideas] Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On 29Mar2014 01:16, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > >If I could consistently remember whether to include the "e" or not,
> > >"zeroes" would be my preference as well, but almost every time I go to
> > >type it, I have to pause...
> >
> > Whichever you choose, please make sure it's the same as
> > whatever numpy uses!
>
> 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
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