[Python-Dev] s/bytes/octet/ [Was:Re: bytes.from_hex() [Was: PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349?]] (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Feb 21 23:23:39 CET 2006


Greg Ewing wrote:

I don't quite see the point here. Inside a bytes object, they would be stored 1 byte per byte. Nobody is suggesting that they would take up more than that just because abytesobject[i] happens to return an int.

Speaking of which, I suspect it'll be a lot more common to need integer objects in the full range [0, 255] than it is now.

Perhaps we should extend the pre-allocated integer objects to cover the full byte range.

Tim Delaney



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