[Python-Dev] What to do for bytes in 2.6?
Neil Schemenauer
nas at arctrix.com
Sat Jan 19 19:53:42 CET 2008
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> bytes is an alias for str (not even a subclass)
> b"" is an alias for ""
One advantage of a subclass is that there could be a flag that warns
about combining bytes and unicode data. For example, b"x" + u"y"
would produce a warning. As someone who writes internationalized
software, I would happly use both the byte designating syntax and
the warning flag, even if I wasn't planning to move to Python 3.
Neil
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