[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun Jan 5 20:33:51 CET 2014


As anyone who has worked with Python 3 and low-level protocols knows, Python 3 has no 'bytestring' type.  It has 
immutable and mutable versions of arrays of integers, otherwise known as 'bytes' and 'bytearray'.

How many would be interested in having a 'bytestring'?

What do you see as the distinguishing characteristics?

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~Ethan~


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