[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:55:26 +0530, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:28:45PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale
> > as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an
> > infix operator, with
> > 
> >   s at i
> > 
> > being equivalent to
> > 
> >   s[i:i+1]
> > 
> 
> And this is way beyond being intuitive. 

Agreed, -1 on that.  Like I said, I was just venting.  The decision
to have indexing bytes return an int is set in stone now and I
just have to live with it.

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com