[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Geert Jansen]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> As anyone who has worked with Python 3 and low-level protocols knows, Python
> 3 has no 'bytestring' type.  It has immutable and mutable versions of arrays
> of integers, otherwise known as 'bytes' and 'bytearray'.
>
> How many would be interested in having a 'bytestring'?

I'm not missing a new type, but I am missing the format method on the
binary types.

Regards,
Geert