This is because a bytes object is not a sequence of bytes objects, like strings. It's a sequence of small integer values, so you need to assign a small integer value to it. You can assign b'a'[0] to it, or assign b'a' to x[:1]. I guess we could specialcase length-1 bytes to make this work 'naturally', but I'm not sure that's the right approach. Guido?
On 2/25/07, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> x = b'a' >>> x[0] = b'a' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'bytes' object cannot be interpreted as an index Huh? 0 is not a 'bytes' object and I don't see how the RHS is being used as an index. Obviously I wanted something like: >>> x[0] = ord(b'a') _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/thomas%40python.org
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