Gerrit Holl wrote: > On 2006-10-04 05:10:32 +0200, John Machin wrote: > > > - str methods endswith, find, partition, replace, split(lines), > > > startswith, > > > - Regular expressions > > > > > > I think those can be useful on a bytes type. Perhaps bytes and str could > > > share a common parent class? They certainly share a lot of properties > > > and possible operations one might want to perform. > > > > > > > I look at it this way:: > > Processing text? Use unicode. > > Binary structures and file I/O, interfacing to 8-bit-wide channels? Use > > bytes. > > But can I use regular expressions on bytes? > Regular expressions are not limited to text.
So why haven't you been campaigning for regular expression support for sequences of int, and for various array.array subtypes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
