範囲内の1つのintに対するさまざまなメソッドのパフォーマンスに興味があった[0, 255]ので、タイミングテストを行うことにしました。
下記のタイミングに基づいて、私は多くの異なった価値観や設定をしようとしてから観察し、一般的な傾向から、struct.pack続く、最速のようですint.to_bytes、bytesと、とstr.encode（当然）が最も遅いもの。結果が表されているよりも、いくつかのより多くの変化を示す、とすることを注意int.to_bytesしてbytes、時にはテスト中のランキング速度を切り替え、しかしstruct.packはっきりと最速です。
Windows上のCPython 3.7での結果：
Testing with 63:
bytes_: 100000 loops, best of 5: 3.3 usec per loop
to_bytes: 100000 loops, best of 5: 2.72 usec per loop
struct_pack: 100000 loops, best of 5: 2.32 usec per loop
chr_encode: 50000 loops, best of 5: 3.66 usec per loop
テストモジュール（名前はint_to_byte.py）：
"""Functions for converting a single int to a bytes object with that int's value."""
import random
import shlex
import struct
import timeit
def bytes_(i):
"""From Tim Pietzcker's answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21017834/8117067
"""
return bytes([i])
def to_bytes(i):
"""From brunsgaard's answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30375198/8117067
"""
return i.to_bytes(1, byteorder='big')
def struct_pack(i):
"""From Andy Hayden's answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/26920966/8117067
"""
return struct.pack('B', i)
# Originally, jfs's answer was considered for testing,
# but the result is not identical to the other methods
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/31761722/8117067
def chr_encode(i):
"""Another method, from Quuxplusone's answer here:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/210789/140921
Similar to g10guang's answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51558790/8117067
"""
return chr(i).encode('latin1')
converters = [bytes_, to_bytes, struct_pack, chr_encode]
def one_byte_equality_test():
"""Test that results are identical for ints in the range [0, 255]."""
for i in range(256):
results = [c(i) for c in converters]
# Test that all results are equal
start = results[0]
if any(start != b for b in results):
raise ValueError(results)
def timing_tests(value=None):
"""Test each of the functions with a random int."""
if value is None:
# random.randint takes more time than int to byte conversion
# so it can't be a part of the timeit call
value = random.randint(0, 255)
print(f'Testing with {value}:')
for c in converters:
print(f'{c.__name__}: ', end='')
# Uses technique borrowed from https://stackoverflow.com/q/19062202/8117067
timeit.main(args=shlex.split(
f"-s 'from int_to_byte import {c.__name__}; value = {value}' " +
f"'{c.__name__}(value)'"
))
3 .to_bytes