Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are you planning to backport bytearrays? >> I thought we had clearly decided to *not* backport any of the text/bytes >> model so that the >> Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure. >> > > 'bytearray' is a separate issue. It's a brand new type: a *mutable* > byte array. Its status as a built-in and completely different API > makes it much more convenient than using the old array module. > Introducing bytearray is not going to disturb the balance between > str/bytes/unicode. > I'm looking forward to having a native mutable bytes type in Python 2.x.
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