On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:47:16 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However, a big +1 for deprecation in the case of bytes and bytearray. > That's nothing to do with the maintenance burden though, it's to do > with the semantic confusion between binary data and ASCII-encoded text > implied by the retention of methods like upper(), lower() and > swapcase().
A big -1 on that. Bytes objects are often used for partly ASCII strings, not arbitrary "arrays of bytes". And making indexing of bytes objects return ints was IMHO a mistake. Besides, if you want an array of ints, there's already array.array() with your typecode of choice. Not sure why other types should conform. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
