[Python-3000] bytes C API in 2.6 for easy transition to 3.0?

[Guido van Rossum]

This is the plan. We're just short on cheap labor to implement it. I
wish I could quote an email that you sent long, long ago (in ILU
times) about having set up a drummer in the back of the room to entice
the 50 coding slaves to more productivity. I believe there was a whip
involved too. :-)

On 9/4/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> According to PEP 358, "bytes" will be in both 2.6 and 3.0.  It would
> be nice if the C API for "bytes" existed in the trunk, so that it
> could be used for new code that will port more easily to 3.0.

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