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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 26 07:31:34 CEST 2007


On 9/25/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Return a byte.  If you want a mutable length-1 thing you should have
> > to do a length 1 slice.  Otherwise its an index operation and you want
> > what is stored at the index, which is an immutable byte.
>
> Why shouldn't this argument apply to immutable bytes objects as
> well? Or should it?

Never said it shouldn't.  But I don't view immutable bytes as a
container like mutable bytes.

-Brett


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