"treating bytes as chars" considered harmful? I don't know the answer to your question but the behavior seems right to me. Python 3 grudgingly allows the "abomination" of byte strings (is that what they're called? I haven't fully embraced Python3 yet). If you want a substring you use a slice. b = b'xyz' b[1:2] => b'y'
also, chr(121) => 'y' which is really what the Python 3 gods prefer. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
