PEP 467: ascii constructors removed (GH-3603)

peps/pep-0467.rst

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ This PEP proposes five small adjustments to the APIs of the ``bytes`` and
 
 * Add ``fromsize`` alternative constructor
 * Add ``fromint`` alternative constructor
-* Add ``ascii`` alternative constructor
 * Add ``getbyte`` byte retrieval method
 * Add ``iterbytes`` alternative iterator
 
@@ -120,36 +119,6 @@ negative numbers. The documentation of the new methods will refer readers to
 ``int.to_bytes`` for use cases where handling of arbitrary integers is needed.
 
 
-Addition of "ascii" constructors
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-
-In Python 2 converting an object, such as the integer ``123``, to bytes (aka the
-Python 2 ``str``) was as simple as::
-
-   >>> str(123)
-   '123'
-
-With Python 3 that became the more verbose::
-
-   >>> b'%d' % 123
-
-or even::
-
-   >>> str(123).encode('ascii')
-
-This PEP proposes that an ``ascii`` method be added to ``bytes`` and ``bytearray``
-to handle this use-case::
-
-   >>> bytes.ascii(123)
-   b'123'
-
-Note that ``bytes.ascii()`` would handle simple ascii-encodable text correctly,
-unlike the ``ascii()`` built-in::
-
-   >>> ascii("hello").encode('ascii')
-   b"'hello'"
-
-
 Addition of "getbyte" method to retrieve a single byte
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