text_combined: travis oliphant xcwzxsuwiwjapwieeeorg guido van rossum wrote hm yes seems reasonable travis think sat apr 26 2008 151 pm alexandre vassalotti wrote would good idea make memoryview indexing consistent behaviour bytes object memoryviewbhello0 bytearraybh bhello0 104 im sure rush reasons differences idea element memoryview object bytes object either bytearray bytes object depending mutability original memoryview object seems like bytes object case remember element memoryview object one byte depending format attribute im sure gained specialcasing 1byte item except possible confusion later perhaps useful specialcase one lose useful mutability feel right special case actually return memoryview object even element access especially needed think nested formats arise memorymapping files provides handy iorelated functionality leave method call extract bytes object desired travis _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 205242 0500 python3000 consistency memoryview bytes object