The bytes type in Python 3 does not feel very consistent.
For example:
--> some_var = 'abcdef'
--> some_var
'abcdef'
--> some_var[3]
'd'
--> some_other_var = b'abcdef'
--> some_other_var
b'abcdef'
--> some_other_var[3]
100
On the one hand we have the 'bytes are ascii data' type interface, and
on the other we have the 'bytes are a list of integers between 0 - 256'
interface. And trying to use the two is not intuitive:
--> some_other_var[3] == b'd'
False
When I'm parsing a .dbf file and extracting field types from the byte
stream, I'm not thinking, "okay, 67 is a Character field" -- what I'm
thinking is, "b'C' is a Character field".
Considering that ord() still works fine, I'm not sure why it was done
this way.
Is there code out there that is using this "list of int's" interface, or
is there time to make changes to bytes?
~Ethan~
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