The latest version of the PEP clarifies that both are allowed.
On 2/23/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [-python-checkins, +python-dev]
> >
> > On 2/22/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > __setitem__
> > > > __setslice__
> > > > append
> > > > count
> > > > + decode
> > > > + endswith
> > > > extend
> > > > + find
> > > > index
> > > > insert
> > > > + join
> > > > + partition
> > > > remove
> > > > + replace
> > > > + rindex
> > > > + rpartition
> > > > + split
> > > > + startswith
> > > > + rfind
> > > > + rindex
> > > > + rsplit
> > > > + translate
>
> > > What sort of arguments do they take?
>
> > You should be able to infer this from what the corresponding str or
> > list methods do -- always substituting bytes for those, and int for
> > the single element.
> ...
> > > Single integers? startswith(ord('A'))
> >
> > TypeError (this is the same as the previous.)
>
> >>> "asdf".index("df") == "asdf".index("d")
>
> Assuming :
> >>> data = bytes("asdf", 'ASCII')
>
> Are you saying that, even for the single-char call, I must write:
> >>> data.index(bytes("d", 'ASCII'))
>
> instead of:
> >>> data.index("d")
>
> or even:
> >>> data.index(ord("d"))
>
> -jJ
>
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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