[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 467: Minor API improvements for bytes & bytearray (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Mon Aug 18 03:40:50 CEST 2014

Le 17/08/2014 20:08, Nick Coghlan a écrit :

On 18 Aug 2014 09:57, "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org_ _<mailto:barry at python.org>> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2014, at 09:12 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > >I'm talking more generally - do you really want to be explaining that > >"bytes" behaves like a tuple of integers, while "bytes.bytes" behaves like > >a tuple of bytes? > > I would explain it differently though, using concrete examples. > > data = bytes(...) > for i in data: # iterate over data as integers > for i in data.bytes: # iterate over data as bytes > > But whatever. I just wish there was something better than iterbytes. There's actually another aspect to your idea, independent of the naming: exposing a view rather than just an iterator.

So that view would actually be the bytes object done right? Funny :-) Will it have lazy slicing?

Regards

Antoine.

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