-----Original Message----- From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+tritium- list=sdamon.com@python.org] On Behalf Of Nick Coghlan Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 5:40 PM To: Barry Warsaw
Cc: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 467: Minor API improvements to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview On Jun 07, 2016, at 01:28 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
* Add ``bytes.iterbytes``, ``bytearray.iterbytes`` and ``memoryview.iterbytes`` alternative iterators
+1 but I want to go just a little farther.
We can't change bytes.__getitem__ but we can add another method that returns single byte objects? I think it's still a bit of a pain to extract single bytes even with .iterbytes().
Maybe .iterbytes can take a single index argument (blech) or add a method
On 7 June 2016 at 14:31, Barry Warsaw
wrote: like .byte_at(i). I'll let you bikeshed on the name.
Perhaps:
data.getbyte(i) data.iterbytes()
data.getbyte(index_or_slice_object) ? while it might not be... ideal... to create a sliceable live view object, we can have a method that accepts a slice, even if we have to create it manually (or at least make it convenient for those who wish to wrap a bytes object in their own type and blindly pass the first-non-self arg of a custom __getitem__ to the method).
The rationale for "Why not a live view?" is that an iterator is simple to define and implement, while we know from experience with memoryview and the various dict views that live views are a minefield for folks defining new container types. Since this PEP would in some sense change what it means to implement a full "bytes-like object", it's worth keeping implementation complexity in mind.
Cheers, Nick.
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