Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Given that strings are going to be unicode, will there be a "characters"
> data type to go along with the "bytes" data type?
No. The content of bytes is an 8 bit integer.
> And how is the bytes data type different from the existing array type?
Effectively, you can think of the bytes datatype as a combination of a
list and an array('B'). It is supposed to be optimized for repeated
extension, so users can presumably use += without worry. That isn't the
case with the current array type.
Is this suffient to warrant a new replacement type? I don't believe so,
hence my series of posts in python-dev (the most recent of which was
reposted here) in regards to immutable and mutable bytes types.
- Josiah
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