The thing that made me wonder is here - <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue16376">http://bugs.python.org/issue16376</a><div>When I inspect contents of Windows structures, I get negative values that</div><div>are not present in MSDN.</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">-- <br>anatoly t.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:44 PM, anatoly techtonik <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com" target="_blank">techtonik@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hi,<div><br></div><div>I wonder why Python uses signed chars for bytes <a href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_byte" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_byte</a></div>

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<div>This is a Java thing, but Java doesn&#39;t have unsigned types at all</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Java#Unsigned_integer_types" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Java#Unsigned_integer_types</a><br>


</div><div><br></div><div>Windows implements BYTE as unsigned char, and it is in the same line as WORD, DWORD etc. The way you look at memory contents in assembly.</div><div><br></div><div>byte type is also unsigned in .NET platform for all languages implementes, and also has a sbyte counterpart.</div>


<div><br></div><div>When working with bytes in decimal system it is much more convenient to operate with strictly positive values than with -128 - 127 (or is it -127 to 128?)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>

<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>
anatoly t.<br>
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