R. David Murray added the comment: I said *enough* motivation. doing b'x'.join(b'anything') is a very uncommon operation (as is the equivalent string case).
There is no parallel to the bytearray constructor, since that constructor does not take an iterable of byte-like objects as its input, it takes an iterable of ints, as you point out. There is no parallel to slice assignment, since a slice is by definition a bytes like object (that's why using the slice notation in the comprehension to the argument of join works). The inconsistency is entirely a consequence of the fact that if you iterate a bytes-like object you get integers. So, join's behavior is consistent with that, and as I said, *I* don't see enough motivation to make a special case exception here. Others may disagree. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
