On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > In Python 3 one can say > > --> huh = bytes(5) > > Since the bytes type is actually a list of integers, I would have expected > this to have huh being a bytestring with one element -- the integer 5. > Actually, what you get is: > > --> huh > b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' > > or five null bytes. Note that this is an immutable type, so you cannot go > in later and say > > --> huh[3] = 9 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: 'bytes' object does not support item assignment > > > So, out of curiosity, does anyone actually use this, um, feature?
I suppose it's for interoperability with the mutable bytearray type, which takes the same parameters in the constructor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
