[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Stefan Behnel]

Xavier Morel, 19.05.2011 09:41:
> On 2011-05-19, at 07:28 , Georg Brandl wrote:
>> On 19.05.2011 00:39, Greg Ewing wrote:
>>> If someone sees that
>>>
>>>     some_var[3] == b'd'
>>>
>>> is true, and that
>>>
>>>     some_var[3] == 100
>>>
>>> is also true, they might expect to be able to do things
>>> like
>>>
>>>     n = b'd' + 1
>>>
>>> and get 101... or maybe b'e'...
>>
>> Maybe they should :)
>
> But why wouldn't "they" expect `b'de' + 1` to work as well in this case? If a 1-byte bytes is equivalent to an integer, why not an arbitrary one as well?

The result of this must obviously be b"de1".

Stefan