[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes (original) (raw)

Łukasz Langa lukasz at langa.pl
Thu May 19 11:25:23 CEST 2011

Wiadomość napisana przez Stefan Behnel w dniu 2011-05-19, o godz. 10:37:

But why wouldn't "they" expect b'de' + 1 to work as well in this case? If a 1-byte bytes is equivalent to an integer, why not an arbitrary one as well? The result of this must obviously be b"de1".

I hope you're joking. At best, the result should be b"de\x01". But I don't think such construct should be allowed. Just like you can't do [1, 2, 3] + 4. I wouldn't ever expect that a single byte behaves like a sequence of bytes. In the case of bytes b'a' is obviously still a sequence of bytes, just happening to store a single one. Indexing should return a byte so I'm not surprised it returns a number. Slicing on the other hand returns a sub-sequence.

However inconvenient, I find the current behaviour logical and predictable. A shortcut for b'a'[0] would obviously be nice but that's for python-ideas.

-- Best regards, Łukasz Langa Senior Systems Architecture Engineer

IT Infrastructure Department Grupa Allegro Sp. z o.o.

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