[Python-3000] bytes: compare bytes to integer
Victor Stinner
victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Mon Aug 13 02:19:56 CEST 2007
On Sunday 12 August 2007 19:11:18 Bill Janssen wrote:
> Why not just write
>
> b'xyz'[0:1] == b'x'
It's just strange to write:
'abc'[0] == 'a'
for character string and:
b'abc'[0:1] == b'a'
for byte string.
The problem in my brain is that str is a special case since a str item is also
a string, where a bytes item is an integer.
It's clear that "[5, 9, 10][0] == [5]" is wrong, but for bytes and str it's
not intuitive because of b'...' syntax. If I had to wrote [120, 121, 122]
instead of b'xyz' it would be easier to understand that first value is an
integer and not the *letter* X or the *string* X.
I dislike b'xyz'[0:1] == b'x' since I want to check first item and not to
compare substrings.
Victor Stinner aka haypo
http://hachoir.org/
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