[Python-3000] Immutable bytes -- looking for volunteer

[Guido van Rossum]

No takers? What about those repeated +42 voters? Does anyone want
immutable bytes enough to do a teensy bit of work?

--Guido

On 9/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> This may have passed in a thread where no-one was listening, so I'm
> repeating it here.
>
> I'm considering the following option: bytes would always be immutable,
> and for the few places (mostly in io.py) where a mutable bytes buffer
> would be handy, we use the array module. Then it would also make sense
> to make b[0] return a bytes array of length 1 instead of a small int
> -- bytes would be more similar to str in 2.x, albeit completely
> incompatible with str in terms of mixed operations.
>
> It would help if someone explored creating a patch to implement this,
> just to see the minimum amount of code that would need to change
> compared to 3.0a1. (The challenge includes making all the tests pass
> again.)
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>


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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)