Hi, Gandia Augusto,
in contrast to cPython 2.7, IronPython does not have byte-strings. This is due
to .NET - strings in .NET are always unicode, they're the same type there. And
to convert an Unicode string to a byte array, you will always need an encoding.
The situation wr/t strings is much mo
There are plans, and even some small amount of work
(https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironpython3). However time is the
usual issue.
If you want to help (great!) then a decent introduction to
IronPython's internals is http://aosabook.org/en/ironlang.html. The
main work that needs to be done is to
