[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >>> b[3] = '\xfe'

I think you meant to write

    b[3] = 0xfe # or byte(0xfe)

here. Assigning to an index always takes the element type in
Python. It's only strings where reading an index returns the
container type.

>     >>> b += "\xfe"

And here, you probably meant to write

    b += bytes("\xfe")

Regards,
Martin