Does anyone know what the rationale behind making byte-string indexing return an int rather than a byte-string of length one?
That is, given b = b'xyz', b[1] returns 121 rather than b'y'. This is especially surprising when one considers that it's easy to extract the ordinal value of a byte: ord(b'y') => 121 -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
