Erik Max Francis wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> With "bytearray", the element type is considered to be "unsigned >> byte", >> or so says PEP 3137: "The element data type is always 'B' (i.e. >> unsigned byte)." >> >> Let's try: >> >> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit >> (Intel)] on >> win32 >> >>> xx = b'x' >> >>> repr(xx) >> "'x'" >> >>> repr(xx[0]) >> "'x'" >> >>> repr(xx[0][0]) >> "'x'" >> >>> >> >> But that's not what "repr" indicates. The bytearray element is >> apparently >> being promoted to "bytes" as soon as it comes out of the array. > > There's no distinction byte type. A single character of a bytes type is > also a bytes. > Beware, also, that in 2.6 the "bytes" type is essentially an ugly hack to enable easier forward compatibility with the 3.X series ...
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