[Python-3000] PEP 3137: Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer

[Guido van Rossum]

I didn't miss it, and I don't disagree, I just don't think it has much
bearing on the discussion (which is whether to go with this proposal
at all).

On 9/27/07, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Thinking through the consequences, and noticing that using the array
> > module as an ersatz mutable bytes type is far from ideal, and
> > recalling a proposal put forward earlier by Talin, I floated the
> > suggestion to have both a mutable and an immutable bytes type.  (This
> > had been brought up before, but until seeing the evidence of Jeffrey's
> > patch I wasn't open to the suggestion.)
>
> One thing that you may have missed from my proposal is that both 'bytes'
> and 'buffer' inherit from a common ABC. This ABC defines all of the
> operations which 'bytes' and 'buffer' have in common. My name for this
> ABC was 'ByteSequence', but I have no particular attachment to that name.
>
> -- Talin
>
>


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