[Python-3000] Immutable bytes -- looking for volunteer

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

I'll take it. I assume it's just a matter of removing the mutating
methods and making the tests pass? I saw but didn't read a couple
threads about the buffer API... how much has to change there?

On 9/18/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> No takers? What about those repeated +42 voters? Does anyone want
> immutable bytes enough to do a teensy bit of work?
>
> --Guido
>
> On 9/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > This may have passed in a thread where no-one was listening, so I'm
> > repeating it here.
> >
> > I'm considering the following option: bytes would always be immutable,
> > and for the few places (mostly in io.py) where a mutable bytes buffer
> > would be handy, we use the array module. Then it would also make sense
> > to make b[0] return a bytes array of length 1 instead of a small int
> > -- bytes would be more similar to str in 2.x, albeit completely
> > incompatible with str in terms of mixed operations.
> >
> > It would help if someone explored creating a patch to implement this,
> > just to see the minimum amount of code that would need to change
> > compared to 3.0a1. (The challenge includes making all the tests pass
> > again.)
> >
> > --
> > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> >
>
>
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> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Jeffrey Yasskin
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