Issue1894

behavior of bytearray does not match python2.7

Jython 2.7a1 (default:4f5e3c12edc0, May 16 2012, 13:40:33) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Oracle Corporation)] on java1.7.0_04
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a=bytearray(b'01')
>>> a
<bytearray object at 0x2>
>>> b=bytearray(b'23')
>>> b
<bytearray object at 0x3>
>>> a+b
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'bytearray' and 'bytearray'


Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 16 2010, 18:02:00) 
[GCC 4.5.1 20100907 (Red Hat 4.5.1-3)] on linux2
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>>> a=bytearray(b'01')
>>> b=bytearray(b'23')
>>> a+b
bytearray(b'0123')

bytearray in jython 2.7a1 is also missing the join method.

If you look at the announcement and the README you'll see that we know bytearray is only partially implemented :) -- It's probably a good idea to have a bug report around though so others can see that it's being worked on.

Jeff Allen (ja) is the one working on this.

> If you look at the announcement and the README you'll see

My bad.

Oscar: no worries! Bug reports are always appreciated - having this one exist may keep others from posting the same bug :)

There are so many things bytearray doesn't do yet (my bad), but I'm working on it. If it's any comfort:

>dist\bin\jython
Jython 2.7a1+ (, May 19 2012, 20:07:50)
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_26
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a=bytearray(b'01')
>>> b=bytearray(b'23')
>>> a+b
bytearray(b'0123')
>>>

I believe that is in the development tip now. The rest is coming, well, most of it. Great to know people want it.

bytearray is now complete with these operations, and all the others required of it.