STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
>>> (65).to_bytes() b'A' It seems like your proposal is mostly guided by: convert an int to a byte (bytes string of length 1). IMO this case is special enough to justify the usage of a different function. What if people expect int.to_bytes() always return a single byte, but then get two bytes by mistake? ch = 256 byte = ch.to_bytes() assert len(byte) == 2 # oops A function dedicated to create a single byte is expected to raise a ValueError for values outside the range [0; 255]. Like: >>> struct.pack('B', 255) b'\xff' >>> struct.pack('B', 256) struct.error: ubyte format requires 0 <= number <= 255 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45155> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com