[New-bugs-announce] [issue3156] bytes type has inconsistent methods (append, insert)

[A.M. Kuchling]

New submission from A.M. Kuchling <lists at amk.ca>:

bytearray's methods aren't consistent in what they accept.             
        

append() takes either an int or a character:                           
        
                                                                       
        
>>> b = bytearray('abc')                                               
        
>>> b.append(76) ; b                                                   
        
bytearray(b'abcL')                                                     
        
>>> b.append('M') ; b                                                  
        
bytearray(b'abcLM')                                                    
        
                                                                       
        
.insert() accepts only integers:                                       
        
                                                                       
        
>>> b.insert(0, 97) ; b                                                
        
bytearray(b'aabcLM')                                                   
        
>>> b.insert(0, 'a') ; b                                               
        
Traceback (most recent call last):                                     
        
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                  
        
TypeError: an integer is required                                      
        
                                                                       
        
Both PEP 358 and the docstring for .append() only document 'int' as a  
        
legal input, so I suspect append() is wrong here.

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messages: 68487
nosy: akuchling
severity: normal
status: open
title: bytes type has inconsistent methods (append, insert)
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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