Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bytes is an alias for str (not even a subclass) > b"" is an alias for ""
One advantage of a subclass is that there could be a flag that warns about combining bytes and unicode data. For example, b"x" + u"y" would produce a warning. As someone who writes internationalized software, I would happly use both the byte designating syntax and the warning flag, even if I wasn't planning to move to Python 3. Neil _______________________________________________ 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
