The main reason for having not having characters and strings is reducing complexity. Why try to add this now for no apparent net benefit ?
I think the situation with bytes (iteration returning integers instead of bytes) has shown that this not a very user friendly nor intuitive approach: >>> b = bytes((1,2,3,4)) >>> b b'\x01\x02\x03\x04' >>> b[:2] b'\x01\x02' >>> b[:1] b'\x01' >>> b[0] 1 # yeah, right :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Mar 03 2020) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Support ... https://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Product Development ... https://consulting.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HAIQWIOHMEQK54F7M6RA56PRCEGC7L4G/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
