Guido van Rossum wrote: > Thinking through the consequences, and noticing that using the array > module as an ersatz mutable bytes type is far from ideal, and > recalling a proposal put forward earlier by Talin, I floated the > suggestion to have both a mutable and an immutable bytes type. (This > had been brought up before, but until seeing the evidence of Jeffrey's > patch I wasn't open to the suggestion.)
One thing that you may have missed from my proposal is that both 'bytes' and 'buffer' inherit from a common ABC. This ABC defines all of the operations which 'bytes' and 'buffer' have in common. My name for this ABC was 'ByteSequence', but I have no particular attachment to that name. -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
