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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 18 04🔞01 CEST 2007


This may have passed in a thread where no-one was listening, so I'm repeating it here.

I'm considering the following option: bytes would always be immutable, and for the few places (mostly in io.py) where a mutable bytes buffer would be handy, we use the array module. Then it would also make sense to make b[0] return a bytes array of length 1 instead of a small int -- bytes would be more similar to str in 2.x, albeit completely incompatible with str in terms of mixed operations.

It would help if someone explored creating a patch to implement this, just to see the minimum amount of code that would need to change compared to 3.0a1. (The challenge includes making all the tests pass again.)

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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