[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Aug 29 02:06:54 CEST 2004

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>>> b[3] = '\xfe'

I think you meant to write

b[3] = 0xfe # or byte(0xfe)

here. Assigning to an index always takes the element type in Python. It's only strings where reading an index returns the container type.

>>> b += "\xfe"

And here, you probably meant to write

b += bytes("\xfe")

Regards, Martin

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