[Python-ideas] bytes indexing behavior

[Michael Selik]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016, 1:03 AM Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+python at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2016 2:40 PM, "Michael Selik" <michael.selik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Instead it seems the best way given the current behavior is to write:
> >
> >     len(bytestring) == bytestring.count(b'z')
> >
> > While I wait for PEP 467, can anyone suggest a better way to write that?
>
> How about
>     set(bytestring) == set(b'z')
>
Ah, that makes sense. I'd thought of using a set literal on the right-hand,
but for some reason using set constructor slipped my mind.

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