[Python-Dev] Generalised String Coercion

[Nick Coghlan]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>The bytes type could just be a very thin wrapper around array('b').
> 
> That answers an important question: so you want the bytes type to be
> mutable (and, consequently, unsuitable as a dictionary key).

I would suggest a bytes/frozenbytes pair, similar to set/frozenset and list/tuple.

Cheers,
Nick.

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