[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/05/2014 11:33 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 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'?

+1


> What do you see as the distinguishing characteristics?

Indexing returns a bytestring of length 1, not an integer

`bytestring(7)` either fails, or returns 'bytestring('\x07')' not 'bytestring(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)'

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~Ethan~