[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/19/2011 3:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> It's a mental model problem. People try to think of bytes as
> equivalent to 2.x str and that's just wrong, wrong, wrong. It's far
> closer to array.array('c').

Or like C char arrays

> Strings are basically *unique* in
> returning a length 1 instance of themselves for indexing operations.

I still remember having to work that out and get used to it.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy