At 08:22 AM 4/30/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Still, I expect that having a bunch of string-ish methods on bytes >arrays would be convenient for certain types of data handling. Of >course, only those methods that don't care about character types would >be added, but that's a long list: startswith, endswith, index, rindex, >find, rfind, split, rsplit, join, count, replace, translate.
I've often wished *lists* had startswith and endswith, and somewhat less often wished they had split or rsplit. Those seem like things that are generally applicable to sequences, not just strings or bytes. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
