On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:13:37PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Also, bytes objects are (in my mind anyway) mutable. We have no other > literal notation for mutable objects. What would the following code > print? > > for i in range(2): > b = b"abc" > print b > b[0] = ord("A") > > Would the second output line print abc or Abc? > > I guess the only answer that makes sense is that it should print abc > both times; but that means that b"abc" must be internally implemented > by creating a new bytes object each time. Perhaps the implementation > effort isn't so minimal after all...
I agree. I was thinking that bytes() would be immutable and therefore very similar to the current str object. You've convinced me that a literal representation is not needed. Thanks for clarifying your position. > (PS why is there a reply-to in your email the excludes you from the > list of recipients but includes me?) Maybe you should ask your coworkers. :-) I think gmail is trying to do something intelligent with the Mail-Followup-To header. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com