[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed May 18 22:48:07 CEST 2011
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Here's another thought, that perhaps is not backwards-incompatible...
>>
>> some_var[3] == b'd'
>>
>> At some point, the bytes class' __eq__ will be called -- is there a
>> reason why we cannot have
>>
>> 1) a check to see if the bytes instance is length 1
>> 2) a check to see if
>> i) the other object is an int, and
>> 2) 0 <= other_obj < 256
>> 3) if 1 and 2, make the comparison instead of returning NotImplemented?
>
> Immutable objects that compare equal should hash equal;
> so we would also have to change the hashing of byte strings. Not sure
> whether that, in turn, has undesirable consequences.
I thought it was the other-way-round -- if they hash equal, they should
compare equal? Or is this just for immutables?
> In addition, equality should be transitive, so b'A' == 65.0.
I'm not sure what you're getting at... we could certainly have step 2
check for a number instead of an int, and then step 3 could extract the
one element, giving an int, and then let that int compare itself with
the other number, whether it be int, float, fraction, what-have-you.
~Ethan~
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