Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: In 2.7, bytes is an alias for str to aid porting to 3.x. >>> bytes is str True >>> type(bytes()) <type 'str'>
I suspect the doc uses 'bytes' rather than 'str' because it was backported from 3.x. Perhaps it should be changed but I do not know the policy on using the alias in 2.6/7 docs. I presume in 2.7 io.BytesIO is similar, if not equivalent to io.StringIO, but it is not an alias. Again, it was added so 2.7 code could use a bytes memory buffer that would remain bytes in 3.x and not become unicode text, like StringIO does. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12398> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
