[Python-Dev] bytes thoughts
Josiah Carlson
jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Mar 16 18:13:29 CET 2006
"Christos Georgiou" <tzot at mediconsa.com> wrote:
> Well, what's the result of
>
> bytes([1,0,0])^ bytes([1,0])
>
> ? Is it bytes([0,0,0]) (à la little-endian) or is it bytes([1,1,0])
> (straight conversion to base-256)? Or perhaps throw a ValueError if the
> sizes differ?
It's a ValueError. If the sizes matched, it would be a per-element
bitwise xor.
> These details should be considered in the PEP.
They aren't considered because they are *obvious* to most (if not all)
sane people who use Python. Think of future bytes behavior to be
similar to current array behavior, with a few bits and pieces added to
make life easier (like all of the current string methods, etc.)
- Josiah
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