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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-12-19 16:51:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-12-19 16:51:37 (GMT) |
| commit | dd1da7f74ad7d625148dc8a8f4f30051bc2c3401 (patch) | |
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Issue #28927: bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex() now ignore all ASCII
whitespace, not only spaces. Patch by Robert Xiao.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 4 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 1e665af..982d9f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2314,11 +2314,15 @@ the bytes type has an additional class method to read data in that format: This :class:`bytes` class method returns a bytes object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits per - byte, with ASCII spaces being ignored. + byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored. >>> bytes.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2' + .. versionchanged:: 3.7 + :meth:`bytes.fromhex` now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, + not just spaces. + A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytes object into its hexadecimal representation. @@ -2382,11 +2386,15 @@ the bytearray type has an additional class method to read data in that format: This :class:`bytearray` class method returns bytearray object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits - per byte, with ASCII spaces being ignored. + per byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored. >>> bytearray.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') bytearray(b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2') + .. versionchanged:: 3.7 + :meth:`bytearray.fromhex` now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, + not just spaces. + A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytearray object into its hexadecimal representation. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index ac3a151..0d19f25 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ Other Language Changes now have more than 255 parameters. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`12844` and :issue:`18896`.) +* :meth:`bytes.fromhex` and :meth:`bytearray.fromhex` now ignore all ASCII + whitespace, not only spaces. + (Contributed by Robert Xiao in :issue:`28927`.) + New Modules =========== |