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

Baptiste Carvello baptiste13 at altern.org
Thu Mar 16 23:51:00 CET 2006

Josiah Carlson a écrit :

They aren't considered because they are obvious to most (if not all) sane people who use Python.

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 :-)

Think of future bytes behavior to be similar to current array behavior, with a few bits and pieces added to make life easier (like all of the current string methods, etc.)

I didn't get before that the array behavior really defined the bytes behavior. OK, I'll keep that in mind.

Cheers, BC

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