[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Done in r86602. -- resolution: - fixed stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

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Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- stage: needs patch - patch review versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340 ___

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

ipatrol ipatrol6...@yahoo.com added the comment: Yeah, I'll say. I prefer bytearray to back-and-forth mapping with chr and ord. I use it particularly as a mid-step in working with binary representations of strings. Please backport these docs with changes reflecting 2.x's paradigms. --

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: This affects 2.6 as well, doesn't it? -- nosy: +mark.dickinson versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: georg.brandl - d...@python nosy: +d...@python ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340 ___

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Ideally, there should be documentation of 'bytes' and 'bytearray' in the 'Built-in Types' section of the library manual, too. (library/stdtypes.rst). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: 'bytes' is an alias for 'str' in 2.x, so it shouldn't be documented separately. As for bytearray, yes, it should be added if not present. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Shashwat Anand anand.shash...@gmail.com added the comment: On a related note, the documentation of 'bytes' is not backported too. -- nosy: +l0nwlf ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Shashwat Anand anand.shash...@gmail.com added the comment: Attached a patch to backport the 'bytearray' and 'bytes' documentation in trunk. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16860/functions.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: * If it is a *string*, you must also give the *encoding* (and optionally, *errors*) parameters; :func:`bytearray` then converts the string to bytes using :meth:`str.encode`. I think this needs some lines to tell how it behaves with str and

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

New submission from Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org: It looks like the bytearray documentation wasn't backported when the bytearray code was. See Doc/library/functions.rst -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 102576 nosy: brian.curtin, georg.brandl severity: normal