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Author pitrou
Recipients arjennienhuis, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, eric.smith, exarkun, ezio.melotti, flox, glyph, gvanrossum, loewis, martin.panter, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, uau, vstinner
Date 2013-01-23.19:02:44
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> They do have some rather odd behavior when passed to the builtin
> though:
> 
> >>> bytes(10)
> b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
> 
> It would be much more convenient for me if bytes(int) returned the
> ASCIIfication of that int; but honestly, even an error would be better
> than this behavior.  (If I wanted this behavior - which I never have -
> I'd rather it be a classmethod, invoked like "bytes.zeroes(n)".)

I would agree with you, but it's probably too late to change...
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2013-01-23 19:02:44pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, loewis, terry.reedy, exarkun, vstinner, eric.smith, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, glyph, ezio.melotti, arjennienhuis, flox, uau, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka
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