Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> Michael> Is this getting to (hopefully uncontroverisal!) PEP time?
>
> One would hope. I sent in a skeletal PEP last week asking for a number but
> haven't heard back.
Goody.
> Michael> Is there any consensus forming on whether bytes() instances are
> Michael> mutable or not?
>
> ISTR Guido thought mutable was the way to go.
OK.
> I don't think that efficiency concerns will be a huge deal since it
> won't be used all over the place the way strings are.
Who cares? :-)
> Will they need to be used as dict keys? Doesn't seem likely to me.
This is indeed the question. I agree it's unlikely, and you can
presumably do something like convert a bytes() instance into a tuple
of small integers if you really want to key into a dict.
Cheers,
mwh
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