[New-bugs-announce] [issue23681] Have -b warn when directly comparing ints and bytes

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

To help writing Python 2/3 code the -b flag should switch on a warning when comparing an int to a bytes object in Python 2. This will help when someone writes something like `b'abcd'[2] == b'c'` and it always returns False thanks to the indexing returning 99 in Python 3.

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assignee: brett.cannon
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 238228
nosy: brett.cannon
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: Have -b warn when directly comparing ints and bytes
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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