[Python-ideas] bytes indexing behavior
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Mon Jun 6 23:57:40 EDT 2016
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 12:35:30PM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> Maybe the following would work:
>
> - add a new method to 'bytes' that returns a view object with the
> current index/iteration behavior
>
> - enable a deprecation warning for code that uses indexing/iteration
> on bytes
>
> - when sufficient time has passed, revert to Python 2 behavior for
> indexing/iteration
Sounds reasonable. That could even be a __future__ import, so that those
without a big investment in the current behaviour could get the new
behaviour straight away.
--
Steve
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