On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:50:12 +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > There are times (encoding/decoding network protocols and other data > formats) when I have a byte string and I want/need to process it like > Python 2 does, and that is the one area where I feel Python 3 make > things a bit more difficult.
Ah yes, the unfortunate design error that iterating over byte-strings returns ints rather than single-byte strings. That decision seemed to make sense at the time it was made, but turned out to be an annoyance. It's a wart on Python 3, but fortunately one which is fairly easily dealt with by a helper function. That *is* a nice example of where byte strings in Python 3 aren't as nice as in Python 2. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
