On 03/09/2019 15:27, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:19 PM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
On 03/09/2019 13:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
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".
And a character is a byte or sequence of bytes. (Odd-sized bytes are
pretty much history now, so for non-pendantic usages "byte" is good enough.)
But a character is not an octet.
I get that you're distinguishing between the thing and its
representation, but I'm coming at this as an embedded systems engineer.
For me, it's turtles^Woctets all the way down.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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