[Python-Dev] Generalised String Coercion

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Actually, thinking about it some more, it seems to me it's actually more
> like this:
> 
>    sock.send( ("%d:%s," %
> (len(data),data.decode('latin1'))).encode('latin1') )

While this would work, it would still feel wrong: the binary data
are *not* latin1 (most likely), so declaring them to be latin1 would
be confusing. Perhaps a synonym '8bit' for latin1 could be introduced.

Regards,
Martin