[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Ethan Furman]

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> In fact, I feel like I would want to push in the opposite direction: 
> don't treat one-byte bytes slices less like integers; I wish I could 
> more easily treat n-byte sequences _more_ like integers! :).  More 
> protocols have 2-byte or 4-byte network-endian packed integers embedded 
> in them than have individual tag bytes that I want to examine.

So are you thinking that bytes([01,56])[:2] == 120 ?  Or more along the 
lines of a .to_int() method?

~Ethan~