June 7, 2016
11:59 a.m.
On 06/07/2016 04:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
While I prefer Python 2's indexing behaviour, IMHO that ship has sailed. Python 3.5 is probably seeing massive adoption now, and by introducing another behaviour switch we only confuse users and make their lives miserable.
I agree on both counts. Wasn't there a proposal/issue about adding some convenience methods to bytes to help ease this pain? My quick search did not find it.
Let's move on and stop obsessing about errors made in the past. Every language has some of those.
Yup. -- ~Ethan~