[Python-Dev] PEP 467: Minor API improvements to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 07, 2016, at 09:40 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 at 14:38 Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's wrong with b[i:i+1] ?
>It always succeeds while indexing can trigger an IndexError.

Right.  You want a method with the semantics of __getitem__() but that returns
the desired type.

-Barry
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