[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack

[Gregory P. Smith]

Guido -

One tiny question has come up while working on this one:

Should the PyBytes buffer (mutable bytes) object's .append(val) and
.remove(val) methods accept anything other than an int in the 0..255 range?

I believe the answer to be no based on the previous long thread on this but
these two weren't mentioned at the time so i figure I'll ask.  Should a
pep3118 buffer api supporting object that produces a length 1 buffer also
work for append and remove?  That would allow .append(b'!') or
.remove(b'!').

amusingly right now in 3.0a1 there is a bug where .append('33') will happily
append a b'!' by converting it into an int then into a byte.  regardless of
the answer that misbehavior will be zapped in the patch i'm about to submit.
;)

-gps

On 10/8/07, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
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> - add missing methods to PyBytes (for list, see the PEP and compare to
> > what's already there)
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> >
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