Felipe Bastos Nunes wrote:
2011/5/17 Ethan Furman wrote:In Python 3 one can say --> huh = bytes(5) Since the bytes type is actually a list of integers, I would have expected this to have huh being a bytestring with one element -- the integer 5. Actually, what you get is: --> huh b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' or five null bytes. Note that this is an immutable type, so you cannot go in later and say --> huh[3] = 9 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'bytes' object does not support item assignment So, out of curiosity, does anyone actually use this, um, feature?
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They accept .replace(b"00", b"12") for example.
So they do. Although that particular example doesn't work since b'0' is the integer 48...
--> huh.replace(b'00',b'12') b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' The big question, though, is would you do it this way: some_var = bytes(23).replace(b'\x00', b'a') or this way? some_var = bytes(b'a' * 23) ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
