[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 23:55, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> There are not many tools for treating bytes as text.

Well, what tools would you need that can be used also on bytes? Bytes
objects has a lot of the same methods like strings do, and that will
cover 99% of the cases. Most text tools assume that the text really is
text, and much of it doesn't make sense unless you've converted it to
Unicode first.

But most of the things you would need to do, such as in a web-server
doesn't really involve treating the text as something linguistic, but
it's a matter of replacing and escaping and such, and that could be
done while the text is in bytes form.But the tools for that exists...

Is there some specific tool that is missing?
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