[Python-ideas] A possible transition plan to bytes-based iteration and indexing for binary data

[Greg Ewing]

Gregory P. Smith wrote:

> In order for this to work you would need to have your __future__ 
> statement alter the behavior of *all* [] and iteration done within the 
> file to conditionally take a code path that does something different iff 
> the type being operated on is determined at runtime to be bytes.

It *could* be done. When the future statement is in effect,
different bytecodes could be generated for indexing and
iteration that look out for bytes and work differently.

-- 
Greg