Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: The backport wasn't as straightforward as I'd hoped, and we've pretty much run out of time for 2.7.
One issue is that long.from_bytes(b, ...) converts b to bytes type using the equivalent of "bytes(b)". This doesn't work well in 2.7 (consider "bytes([255, 0, 0])" for example. So different code is needed in 2.7 when interpreting an arbitrary Python object as a sequence of bytes. Perhaps the 2.7 version could just iterate over the given object, and raise an exception if any of the iterates are not integers in the range [0, 256). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1023290> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
