"Byte" type?
Christian Heimes
lists at cheimes.de
Sat Feb 21 12:42:27 EST 2009
John Nagle wrote
> If "bytes", a new keyword, works differently in 2.6 and 3.0, that was
> really
> dumb. There's no old code using "bytes". So converting code to 2.6 means
> it has to be converted AGAIN for 3.0. That's a good reason to ignore
> 2.6 as
> defective.
Please don't call something dumb that you don't fully understand. It's
offenses the people who have spent lots of time developing Python --
personal, unpaid and voluntary time!
I can assure, the bytes alias and b'' alias have their right to exist.
Christian
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