[Python-3000] Immutable bytes -- looking for volunteer (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 28 03:14:35 CEST 2007


Gregory P. Smith wrote:

Would a special case in the b'x' comparison tests that knows how to compare a len==1 bytes (mutable or not) object to an integer be reasonable or just alternately confusing?

Comparison isn't the only thing you might want to do with bytes. Doing this just for comparison would be rather arbitrary.

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