On 31/08/2019 12:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
We call it a string, but a bytes object has as much in common with bytearray and with a list of integers as it does with a text string.
You say that as if text strings aren't sequences of bytes. Complicated and restricted sequences, I grant you, but no more so than a packet for a given network protocol.
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