[Python-3000] base64 - bytes and strings

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/30/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Does this mean that Py3k text streams will accept byte arrays
> in their write() methods, and that byte arrays can be concatenated
> with unicode strings and otherwise used in any context expecting
> a text string, as long as all their elements are in the ASCII range?

No, that is not the intention (even if some of that may accidentally
be supported in the current pre-alpha branch).

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