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[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?)

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Sun Sep 4 20:30:12 EDT 2016 
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016, at 16:42, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There are two self-consistent sets of names:
> >
> 
> Let me add a few. I wonder if this is really used so much that
> bytes.chr is too long to type (and you can do bchr = bytes.chr if you
> want to):
> 
> bytes.chr (or bchr in builtins)
> bytes.chr_at, bytearray.chr_at

Ugh, that "at" is too reminiscent of java. And it just feels wrong to
spell it "chr" rather than "char" when there's a vowel elsewhere in the
name.

Hmm... how offensive to the zen of python would it be to have "magic" to
allow both bytes.chr(65) and b'ABCDE'.chr[0]? (and possibly also
iter(b'ABCDE'.chr)? That is, a descriptor which is callable on the
class, but returns a view on instances?
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