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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 23 19:55:41 CEST 2011

On 5/23/2011 1:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

In fact, I feel like I would want to push in the opposite direction: don't treat one-byte bytes slices less like integers; I wish I could more easily treat n-byte sequences more like integers! :). More protocols have 2-byte or 4-byte network-endian packed integers embedded in them than have individual tag bytes that I want to examine. So are you thinking that bytes([01,56])[:2] == 120 ? Or more along the lines of a .toint() method?

I believe that such things can be handled by the struct module.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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