Adding bytes.join() -- a class methods that concatenates an iterable of bytes.
The name and API are questionable, but the functionality isn't.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index 94524d4..051773d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -347,6 +347,30 @@
self.failIf(bytes("dab") in b)
self.failIf(bytes("abd") in b)
+ def test_alloc(self):
+ b = bytes()
+ alloc = b.__alloc__()
+ self.assert_(alloc >= 0)
+ seq = [alloc]
+ for i in range(100):
+ b += bytes("x")
+ alloc = b.__alloc__()
+ self.assert_(alloc >= len(b))
+ if alloc not in seq:
+ seq.append(alloc)
+ print seq
+
+ def test_join(self):
+ self.assertEqual(bytes.join([]), bytes())
+ self.assertEqual(bytes.join([bytes()]), bytes())
+ for part in [("abc",), ("a", "bc"), ("ab", "c"), ("a", "b", "c")]:
+ lst = map(bytes, part)
+ self.assertEqual(bytes.join(lst), bytes("abc"))
+ self.assertEqual(bytes.join(tuple(lst)), bytes("abc"))
+ self.assertEqual(bytes.join(iter(lst)), bytes("abc"))
+ # XXX more...
+
+
# Optimizations:
# __iter__? (optimization)
# __reversed__? (optimization)