Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Code that has been ported to the bytes type probably doesn't use it
> correctly yet, but to me, the need for a buffery thing where you
> can allocate some buffer, and then fill it byte-for-byte is quite
> obvious.
We actually already *have* something like that,
i.e. array.array('B').
So I don't think it's a priori a silly idea to
consider making the bytes type immutable only,
and using the array type for when you want a
mutable buffer.
--
Greg
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