[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Thu Oct 11 09:59:35 CEST 2007


Guido -

One tiny question has come up while working on this one:

Should the PyBytes buffer (mutable bytes) object's .append(val) and .remove(val) methods accept anything other than an int in the 0..255 range?

I believe the answer to be no based on the previous long thread on this but these two weren't mentioned at the time so i figure I'll ask. Should a pep3118 buffer api supporting object that produces a length 1 buffer also work for append and remove? That would allow .append(b'!') or .remove(b'!').

amusingly right now in 3.0a1 there is a bug where .append('33') will happily append a b'!' by converting it into an int then into a byte. regardless of the answer that misbehavior will be zapped in the patch i'm about to submit. ;)

-gps

On 10/8/07, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

- add missing methods to PyBytes (for list, see the PEP and compare to > what's already there) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/attachments/20071011/995afb38/attachment.htm



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