Nick Coghlan wrote: > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> I also would really like to see a real port of the bytes class to 2.6, >> but I have a vague memory that there was some reason that wouldn't >> work. > > Not so much that it wouldn't work, but that the interfaces to support > using it effectively really aren't there - lots of areas in the standard > library needed to be tweaked to cope with bytes objects in 3.x. > > Generally speaking, the "bytes = str" trick represents a reasonable > compromise as the APIs that you would pass a bytes object to in 3.x > expect an 8-bit str instance in 2.x.
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