[Python-ideas] iterating over bytes as byte strings (was Fixing the Python 3 bytes constructor)

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014, at 13:54, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <guido at ...> writes:
> 
> > Support.
> 
> Excellent. I think the means the only thing left to do is bikeshed the
> name.
> iterbytes() maybe? That's what it's called in six.

Should this be purely an iteration function, or something that can also
index and slice [into objects that can subsequently be iterated or
indexed]? What does six do about that?