[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?]

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/14/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> A related question: what would bytes([104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 8004])
> return?  An exception hopefully.

Absolutely.

> I also think you'd want bytes([x
> for x in some_bytes_object]) to return an object equal to the original.

You mean if types(some_bytes_object) is bytes? Yes. But that doesn't
constrain the API much.

Anyway, I'm now convinced that bytes should act as an array of ints,
where the ints are restricted to range(0, 256) but have type int.

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