[Python-3000] Weird error message from bytes type

[Thomas Wouters]

This is because a bytes object is not a sequence of bytes objects, like
strings. It's a sequence of small integer values, so you need to assign a
small integer value to it. You can assign b'a'[0] to it, or assign b'a' to
x[:1]. I guess we could specialcase length-1 bytes to make this work
'naturally', but I'm not sure that's the right approach. Guido?

On 2/25/07, Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com> wrote:
>
> >>> x = b'a'
> >>> x[0] = b'a'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'bytes' object cannot be interpreted as an index
>
> Huh?  0 is not a 'bytes' object and I don't see how the RHS is being
> used as an index.  Obviously I wanted something like:
>
> >>> x[0] = ord(b'a')
>
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