[Python-Dev] methods on the bytes object

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:22 AM 4/30/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Still, I expect that having a bunch of string-ish methods on bytes
>arrays would be convenient for certain types of data handling. Of
>course, only those methods that don't care about character types would
>be added, but that's a long list: startswith, endswith, index, rindex,
>find, rfind, split, rsplit, join, count, replace, translate.

I've often wished *lists* had startswith and endswith, and somewhat less 
often wished they had split or rsplit.  Those seem like things that are 
generally applicable to sequences, not just strings or bytes.