John Nagle wrote > If "bytes", a new keyword, works differently in 2.6 and 3.0, that was > really > dumb. There's no old code using "bytes". So converting code to 2.6 means > it has to be converted AGAIN for 3.0. That's a good reason to ignore > 2.6 as > defective.
Please don't call something dumb that you don't fully understand. It's offenses the people who have spent lots of time developing Python -- personal, unpaid and voluntary time! I can assure, the bytes alias and b'' alias have their right to exist. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
