On 10/3/05, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could the "bytes" type be just the same as the current "str" type but > without the implicit unicode conversion ? Or am I missing some desired > functionality ?
No. It will be a mutable array of bytes. It will intentionally resemble strings as little as possible. There won't be a literal for it. But you will be able to convert between bytes and strings quite easily by specifying an encoding. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
