[Python-ideas] Adding 'bytes' as alias for 'latin_1' codec.

[Greg Ewing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> But even as a separate type, 'ascii' still can't mix with bytes
> safely,

Yes, it can, because it's also bytes. :-)

If you're using the special ascii type at all, rather
than an ordinary str, it's precisely because you want
to mix it with bytes. Making that part hard would
defeat the purpose,

-- 
Greg