[Python-Dev] PEP 467: Minor API improvements to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jun 7 17:57:45 EDT 2016


On Jun 07, 2016, at 09:40 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 at 14:38 Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

What's wrong with b[i:i+1] ? It always succeeds while indexing can trigger an IndexError.

Right. You want a method with the semantics of getitem() but that returns the desired type.

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