On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:34 am, Michael Torrie wrote: > There are some interesting differences I found between a Python 2 string > (composed of bytes) and a Python 3 byte string, such as what you'd get > from calling read() on a file handle opened in binary mode. That is in > Python 2, indexing a string returns a string of length 1. In Python > 3.5, indexing a byte string returns a value, the equivalent of calling > ord() on the single byte string.
Yes, this sadly turned out to be a mistake, and one which we're probably stuck with. > This makes it a bit difficult to make > the code easily work between Python 2 and 3 and handle bytes. Any ideas > there? Use a single byte slice: the_bytes[i:i+1] which works identically in Python 2 and 3. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
