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Bytes objects when indexed provide integers, but do not accept them to many functions, making them inconsistent with other sequences.
Basic example:
>>> test = b'012'
>>> n = test[1]
>>> n
49
>>> n in test
True
>>> test.index(n)
TypeError: expected an object with the buffer interface.
It is certainly unusual for n to be in the sequence, but not to be able to find it. I would expect the result to be 1. This set of commands with list, strings, tuples, but not bytes objects.
I suspect, from issue #10616, that all the following functions would be affected:
"bytes methods: partition, rpartition, find, index, rfind, rindex, count, translate, replace, startswith, endswith"
It would make more sense to me that instead of only supporting buffer interface objects, they also accept a single integer, and treat it as if it were provided a length-1 bytes object.
The use case I came across this problem was something like this:
Given seq1 and seq2, sequences of the same type:
[seq1.index(x) for x in seq2]
This works for strings, lists, tuples, but not bytes.