[Python-ideas] bytes indexing behavior

[Guido van Rossum]

On Monday, June 6, 2016, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06.06.16 23:28, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> I think the approach using a new method for the old behavior is
>> workable. Maybe we should add another (temporary) new method for the new
>> behavior.
>>
>> The magic object approach is too magical.
>>
>> We should do the same for bytearray and memoryview.
>>
>
> I often use bytearray and memoryview as arrays of ints.


Really short ints. :-). But you should really use the array module instead.

Anyway we should do this for all three or for none.

--Guido


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