I think ord() would be fine. On 9/19/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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