Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > (I personnaly think the general bytes-as-sequence-of-ints behaviour is > a mistake, so I wouldn't care much about an additional C API to enforce > that behaviour :-))
I don't want to abolish the "c" (bytes of length 1) format. :) I think there are use cases for well defined arrays of small signed/unsigned integers. Say you want to send a log-ngram array of unsigned chars over the network. There shouldn't be a bytes object involved in that process. You would pack the array with ints and unpack as ints. Unless the struct module and PEP-3118 grow support for int8_t and uint8_t, I think "b" and "B" should probably be restricted to integers. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
