Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 22:12:24 CET 2006

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1.  Maybe there should be a more obvious way to spell "bytes([0])*N". 
I went through "bytes([0]*N)" and "bytes('\0'*N)" before I realized
there was a memory-efficient way to do it.

1a. Likewise, slice-assignment nicely handles memmove(), but there's
no memset().

2.  Having a plural noun as a type name is awkward.  I wish we could
call it "buffer" (which, conveniently, also tells you that it's
mutable, even if you don't know the word "mutable" :-).  Alas.

3. I wrote a toy BytesIO class to go with the toy bytes object:
  http://wiki.python.org/moin/BytesIO
(I hope this isn't considered wiki abuse -- it seemed as worthy and
relevant as most of what's in there.)

-j

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