[docs] bytearray and language usage.

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 28.06.2013 01:50, schrieb Mark Janssen:
> Looking at the Python docs for v2.7.5.
> 
> Section 2.
> 
> bytearray([source[, encoding[, errors]]])
> 
> "  Return a new array of bytes. The bytearray type is a mutable sequence of
> integers in the range 0 <= x < 256."
> 
> This should not be called a "mutable sequence of integers", because to call
> them "integers" already casts raw bits into a particular *type*. They
> could, hypothetically be very short floats, for example.
> 
> More accurately, they are merely "uninterpreted bits presented to the user
> in 8-bit chunks, with a consistent starting boundary" (held by the machine
> storage address).

Hi Mark,

the language is actually correct; Python treats bytearrays as sequences
of integers.  Try this:

>>> list(bytearray(b"abc"))
[97, 98, 99]

cheers,
Georg
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