On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jun 07, 2016, at 09:40 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > >>On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 at 14:38 Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> What's wrong with b[i:i+1] ? >>It always succeeds while indexing can trigger an IndexError. > > Right. You want a method with the semantics of __getitem__() but that returns > the desired type. >
And if this is called __getitem__ (with slices delegated to bytes.__getitem__) and implemented in a class, one has a view. Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to understand what makes this significantly more problematic than an iterator. Ok, I guess we might also need __len__. -- Koos > -Barry > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/k7hoven%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
