Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > In any case, I reject your premise. ALL data types are constructed on > top of bytes,
Only in a very dull sense. > and so long as you allow applications *any way* to coerce data types > to different data types, you allow them to see "inside the black box". I can't see the bytes inside Python objects, including strings, and that's how it is supposed to be. Similarly, I can't (easily) see how files are laid out on hard disks. That's a true abstraction. Nothing in linux presents data, though, except through bytes. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
