Paddy McCarthy added the comment: On 06/12/2012 14:31, Ezio Melotti wrote: > Ezio Melotti added the comment: > > I agree. The examples in the doc seem clear to me, whereas the ones you > proposed are not as clear. Do you think there's something that they don't > currently cover that should be added? > > ---------- > nosy: +ezio.melotti > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue16580> > _______________________________________ > First, Thanks Ezio and Andrew for your replies.
My problem was that when working on bitcoin address validation I saw code that was shifting and &'ing with 0xFF to convert to multiple bytes and half remembered that there might be a Python function to do that. On finding the .to_bytes method and its parameter "big" or "little", the only way I had of working out which to use was to try each until I found out which worked. I therefore thought that what would have helped me was code that showed the equivalent "expanded Python" for the method in a similar way to what is done for some of the itertools functions etc. If we split my request into two: 1. Is such extra explanation necessary. 2. Is my specific code that extra explanation. I can work on the code a bit more. Have I persuaded you that an extra explanation is necessary? Thanks, Paddy. P.S. I guess what is currently present shows the result of the methods but nothing on how it could be generated. I am stating that the generation can aid comprehension. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16580> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
