R. David Murray added the comment: Agreed, but that is a design decision that was taken long ago (regretted by more than a few but defended by others). You can find a number of discussions of this by searching the python-dev archives, including some more recent discussions on possibilities for lessening the pain, but I don't remember if any of those turned into real proposals.
For now, you can find some helpers in six, or you can write your code using slice notation (b'abc'[1:2] == b'b'). ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22549> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
