[Python-Dev] methods on the bytes object (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Apr 30 17:40:59 CEST 2006


At 08:22 AM 4/30/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Still, I expect that having a bunch of string-ish methods on bytes arrays would be convenient for certain types of data handling. Of course, only those methods that don't care about character types would be added, but that's a long list: startswith, endswith, index, rindex, find, rfind, split, rsplit, join, count, replace, translate.

I've often wished lists had startswith and endswith, and somewhat less often wished they had split or rsplit. Those seem like things that are generally applicable to sequences, not just strings or bytes.



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