Greg Ewing wrote:

> I don't quite see the point here. Inside a bytes object,
> they would be stored 1 byte per byte. Nobody is suggesting
> that they would take up more than that just because
> a_bytes_object[i] happens to return an int.

Speaking of which, I suspect it'll be a lot more common to need integer
objects in the full range [0, 255] than it is now.

Perhaps we should extend the pre-allocated integer objects to cover the
full byte range.

Tim Delaney
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