On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Facundo Batista<facundobatista@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Guido van Rossum<guido@python.org> wrote:
In the grander scheme of things, I worry that interpreting byte strings as integers and implementing bitwise operators on them is going to cause more confusion and isn't generally useful enough to
Indeed. But let me rephrase this.
I don't know Python, I'm just starting with Py3k, and I see a bytes object. I don't know what a "byte string" is (and I even feel that the term is strange), but I understand that b"b3\xdd" is an array of three bytes, which, of course, is an array of 24 bits (unless I know that bytes are not always octets, but I think it's the same for this case).
So, I think that providing bit semantics is a must for bytes objects.
I don't care (or I don't know enough to know that this exist) about big/little endian, I just assume that this "just works" (it's is the same case with line ending bytes: I may not know that different OSs finish lines with different marks).
Sounds like a non-sequitur if anything.
From the perspective of "I don't know Python" you cannot expect to draw valid conclusions.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)