On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:27 PM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > > 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. >
A text string is a sequence of characters. By "byte", I really mean "octet", but Python prefers to say "byte". ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YCFPY7A4CBKUV5TTBMLVG7JWDP3XSXMH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
