Steven D'Aprano wrote: > To me, it sounds like should be the opposite of int.from_bytes. > >>> int.from_bytes(b'Hello world', 'little') > 121404708502361365413651784 > >>> bytes.from_int(121404708502361365413651784, 'little') > # should return b'Hello world' > If that's not the API being suggested, that's going to be confusing.
I'm a bit lost here... why are we convinced at all that we need a new way to do this? Hasn't this functionality already existed for years? >>> x = int.from_bytes(b"*", "little") >>> x 42 >>> x.to_bytes(1, "little") b'*' Brandt _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FMG5K4BOX5GSUR2KU3G5ZLBBUIC3EQKD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/