In trying to prune a preceding and trailing bracket - [ and ] - I encountered something unexpected. In the python 3.7 interpreter:
>>> string = [b'0123456789']
>>> string[0][:5]
b'01234'
>>> string[0][0]
48
>>> string[0][:5] == b'01234'
True
>>> string[0][0] == b'0'
False
This feels to me like an inconsistency. I am new to Python, so, am I interpreting this correctly, is this odd?
No, this isn't odd:
>>> type(b'0')
<class 'bytes'>
>>> type(b'0'[0])
<class 'int'>
So, an element of bytes is an integer. Obviously, an integer cannot equal a bytes object because it's meaningless (how do you compare b'123' and 12, for example?).
Quote from the docs:
Since bytes objects are sequences of integers (akin to a tuple), for a bytes object
b,b[0]will be an integer, whileb[0:1]will be a bytes object of length 1.
