[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r53860 - peps/trunk/pep-0000.txt peps/trunk/pep-0358.txt

[Guido van Rossum]

The latest version of the PEP clarifies that both are allowed.

On 2/23/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > [-python-checkins, +python-dev]
> >
> > On 2/22/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >          __setitem__
> > > >          __setslice__
> > > >          append
> > > >          count
> > > > +        decode
> > > > +        endswith
> > > >          extend
> > > > +        find
> > > >          index
> > > >          insert
> > > > +        join
> > > > +        partition
> > > >          remove
> > > > +        replace
> > > > +        rindex
> > > > +        rpartition
> > > > +        split
> > > > +        startswith
> > > > +        rfind
> > > > +        rindex
> > > > +        rsplit
> > > > +        translate
>
> > > What sort of arguments do they take?
>
> > You should be able to infer this from what the corresponding str or
> > list methods do -- always substituting bytes for those, and int for
> > the single element.
> ...
> > > Single integers? startswith(ord('A'))
> >
> > TypeError (this is the same as the previous.)
>
>     >>> "asdf".index("df") == "asdf".index("d")
>
> Assuming :
>     >>> data = bytes("asdf", 'ASCII')
>
> Are you saying that, even for the single-char call, I must write:
>     >>> data.index(bytes("d", 'ASCII'))
>
> instead of:
>     >>> data.index("d")
>
> or even:
>     >>> data.index(ord("d"))
>
> -jJ
>


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