"Byte" type?

[Erik Max Francis]

John Nagle wrote:
>     With "bytearray", the element type is considered to be "unsigned byte",
> or so says PEP 3137: "The element data type is always 'B' (i.e. unsigned 
> byte)."
> 
> Let's try:
> 
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec  4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
> (Intel)] on
> win32
>  >>> xx = b'x'
>  >>> repr(xx)
> "'x'"
>  >>> repr(xx[0])
> "'x'"
>  >>> repr(xx[0][0])
> "'x'"
>  >>>
> 
> But that's not what "repr" indicates.  The bytearray element is apparently
> being promoted to "bytes" as soon as it comes out of the array.

There's no distinction byte type.  A single character of a bytes type is 
also a bytes.

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