[Python-3000] bug in i/o module buffering?

[Jim Jewett]

On 10/27/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> > >   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/io.py", line 455, in read
> > >     del b[n:]
> > > TypeError: 'slice' object does not support item deletion

>         b = bytes(n.__index__())

Isn't bytes the *im*mutable bytestring, so that you would need a
buffer (rather than a bytes) if you plan to clear it out?

-jJ