[Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2004-08-16 through 2004-08-31 [draft]

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:26 AM 9/15/04 -0700, Brett C. wrote:
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>Stemming from a conversation about moving Python over to Unicode only for 
>string representation for 3.0, the discussion of a bytes type came 
>up.  People were saying they used str to store binary data and that if str 
>went away or no longer represented straight binary data (since Unicode has 
>different encodings the values can change while meaning the same thing in 
>terms of characters) they would need a way to deal with this.

Looks like this section was supposed to have a title, but it got lost.