On Nov 21, 2007 3:48 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/21/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just changed PEP 3137 to rename the mutable bytes type 'bytearray' > > instead of 'buffer', and implemented this change in the py3k branch. > > Have you ever consider using 'bytes' for the mutable and 'frozenbytes' > for the inmutable?
Not until you brought it up just now, but I already don't like it. Unlike set/frozenset, for bytes, the common use case is the immutable type, so that should have the shorter name. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
