[Python-Dev] bytes thoughts (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 17 01:40:06 CET 2006

Baptiste Carvello wrote:

They are not that obvious. Logical operations on ints have allowed users to forget about size (and shoot themselves in the foot from time to time). Or is 1^(~1) == -1 obvious ? Well, maybe that's not sane either :-)

It's about as sane as you can get in a world where ints don't have any fixed size. Bytes objects will have a size, on the other hand, and it makes sense to take notice of it.

BTW, is anyone else bothered that the term "bytes object" is a bit cumbersome? Also confusing as to whether it's singular or plural. Could we perhaps call it a bytevector or bytearray or something?

Greg

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