stop bytes being converted to `int` and `float`

[samuelcolvin]

stop using maybe_as_string.

[PrettyWood]

Just a quick question: So you want to make "coerce" mode a bit stricter right? And for pydantic v2 what is your plan?

• update the doc and say that people should add custom validator to coerce to string if they want?
• add it directly in pydantic v2 behind a flag/config param?

[samuelcolvin]

Maybe, I want to avoid config flags if possible but some might be necessary.

See what others say.

[samuelcolvin]

Humm, I'm not sure about this anymore.

There are two fairly intuitive representations of b'123' as an int:

b = b'123'
assert int(b) == 123
assert int.from_bytes(b, 'big') == 3224115

I can imagine the vast majority of users would expect the first option to work (as it does now).

Let's leave this for now.