On 9/17/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may have passed in a thread where no-one was listening, so I'm > repeating it here. > > I'm considering the following option: bytes would always be immutable, > and for the few places (mostly in io.py) where a mutable bytes buffer > would be handy, we use the array module. Then it would also make sense > to make b[0] return a bytes array of length 1 instead of a small int > -- bytes would be more similar to str in 2.x, albeit completely > incompatible with str in terms of mixed operations. >
How far do you want to push the similarity? For instance, would ord() start working on length 1 byte arrays or would int() be the only way to get the integer out of the byte? -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
