[Python-ideas] bytes indexing behavior

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/07/2016 04:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> While I prefer Python 2's indexing behaviour, IMHO that ship has sailed.
> Python 3.5 is probably seeing massive adoption now, and by introducing
> another behaviour switch we only confuse users and make their lives
> miserable.

I agree on both counts.  Wasn't there a proposal/issue about adding some 
convenience methods to bytes to help ease this pain?  My quick search 
did not find it.

> Let's move on and stop obsessing about errors made in the past.  Every
> language has some of those.

Yup.

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~Ethan~