On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you planning to backport bytearrays? > I thought we had clearly decided to *not* backport any of the text/bytes > model so that the > Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure.
'bytearray' is a separate issue. It's a brand new type: a *mutable* byte array. Its status as a built-in and completely different API makes it much more convenient than using the old array module. Introducing bytearray is not going to disturb the balance between str/bytes/unicode. -- --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
