Implement `Color.__bytes__`

[Starbuck5]

The below is written by @Matiiss, @Starbuck5 helped with opening the ticket

import pygame

c = pygame.Color(1, 2, 3)
print(bytes(c))

Does not exactly produce the output one might expect, Python treats the Color as an integer object (it is sort of) and creates a bytes object of that length filled with 0s, more explanation here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes

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Big Whoop — Yesterday at 22:35

hey whats up with this:

from pygame import Color
c = Color(1, 2, 3)
b = bytes(c)
b

?

Matiiss — Yesterday at 23:05

curiously the length of those bytes translates to the color values

from itertools import batched

from pygame import Color

c = Color(5, 2, 3, 7)
b = bytes(c)

length = len(b)

# 0b...
length_in_binary = bin(length)
# 0b... -> [2:] -> ...
length_in_binary_no_prefix = length_in_binary[2:]
length_in_binary_no_prefix_padded = length_in_binary_no_prefix.zfill(32)

print(c)
print(length)
print(length_in_binary)
print(length_in_binary_no_prefix_padded)
print(["".join(batch) for batch in batched(length_in_binary_no_prefix_padded, 8)])
print([int("".join(batch), base=2) for batch in batched(length_in_binary_no_prefix_padded, 8)])

pygame-ce 2.5.3 (SDL 2.30.12, Python 3.12.8)
Color(5, 2, 3, 7)
84017927
0b101000000100000001100000111
00000101000000100000001100000111
['00000101', '00000010', '00000011', '00000111']
[5, 2, 3, 7]

NotMEE12 — Yesterday at 23:15

length of the bytes has the data you need...
Okay but why not let the data be in bytes?

Starbuck — Yesterday at 23:19

Holy shit

Big Whoop — Yesterday at 23:24

yeah fun times

Andrew — Yesterday at 23:58

Output? I’m on mobile right now lol

Starbuck — Yesterday at 23:59

16909311 bytes of 0

Andrew — Yesterday at 23:59

Wtf

Matiiss — 00:05

I think it's because of int
we don't implement a __bytes__, so it might be defaulting to __int__???
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes
yikes

Starbuck — 00:11

Yeah you're right

>>> int(c)
16909311

>>> c.__index__()
16909311