PEP 263 comments

[Huaiyu Zhu]

On 05 Mar 2002 01:36:29 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

>  Consider: does it make sense to concatenate a
>string of Java byte codes with a string of English text?

To produce a kind of tar file, perhaps?  To send something through socket?
There are certainly many cases where one wants to manipulate a byte sequence
without any interpretation of it as a character string.  

If the discussion is only concerned with source code encoding, that's fine.
But if it in the end restricts the kind of operations that can be performed
on raw strings, it's simply untenable. 


Huaiyu