On Sunday 12 August 2007 19:11:18 Bill Janssen wrote: > Why not just write > > b'xyz'[0:1] == b'x'
It's just strange to write: 'abc'[0] == 'a' for character string and: b'abc'[0:1] == b'a' for byte string. The problem in my brain is that str is a special case since a str item is also a string, where a bytes item is an integer. It's clear that "[5, 9, 10][0] == [5]" is wrong, but for bytes and str it's not intuitive because of b'...' syntax. If I had to wrote [120, 121, 122] instead of b'xyz' it would be easier to understand that first value is an integer and not the *letter* X or the *string* X. I dislike b'xyz'[0:1] == b'x' since I want to check first item and not to compare substrings. Victor Stinner aka haypo http://hachoir.org/ _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
