2010/6/20 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:40:56 -0400 > "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> >> Actually, I would say that it's more that (in the network protocol >> case) we *have* bytes, some of which we would like to *treat* as >> text, yet do not wish to constantly convert back and forth to >> full-blown unicode > > Well, then why don't you just stick with a bytes object?
There are not many tools for treating bytes as text. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com