On 06/07/2016 02:33 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
This PEP proposes to deprecate that behaviour in Python 3.6, and
remove it entirely in Python 3.7.
Why the desire to break applications of thousands and thousands of
people? Besides, bytes(3) behavior is very logical. Everyone who knows
what malloc(3) does also knows what bytes(3) does. Who doesn't, can
learn, and eventually be grateful that learning Python actually helped
them to learn other language as well.
Two reasons:
1) bytes are immutable, so creating a 3-byte 0x00 string seems
ridiculous;
2) Python is not C, and the vagaries of malloc are not relevant to
Python.
However, there is little point in breaking working code, so a
deprecation without removal is fine by me.
--
~Ethan~
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