Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: -1 on assigning strings to slices of bytearrays. As Ezio mentions, this operation conceptually requires an encoding, and no encoding is readily available in the slice assignment.
-1 on special-casing empty strings. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8401> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com