[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 467: Minor API improvements for bytes & bytearray

[Donald Stufft]

from __future__ import bytesdoneright? :D

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  Donald Stufft
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2014, at 09:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le 17/08/2014 20:08, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
> >
> > On 18 Aug 2014 09:57, "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org
> > <mailto:barry at python.org>> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > On Aug 18, 2014, at 09:12 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >  >
> >  > >I'm talking more generally - do you *really* want to be explaining that
> >  > >"bytes" behaves like a tuple of integers, while "bytes.bytes"
> > behaves like
> >  > >a tuple of bytes?
> >  >
> >  > I would explain it differently though, using concrete examples.
> >  >
> >  >     data = bytes(...)
> >  >     for i in data: # iterate over data as integers
> >  >     for i in data.bytes: # iterate over data as bytes
> >  >
> >  > But whatever.  I just wish there was something better than iterbytes.
> >
> > There's actually another aspect to your idea, independent of the naming:
> > exposing a view rather than just an iterator.
> 
> So that view would actually be the bytes object done right? Funny :-)
> Will it have lazy slicing?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> 
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