On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >There are some APIs that should be able to handle bytes *or* strings, >but the current use of string literals in their implementation means >that bytes don't work. This turns out to be a PITA for some networking >related code which really wants to be working with raw bytes (e.g. >URLs coming off the wire).
Note that email has exactly the same problem. A general solution -- even if embodied in *well documented* best-practices and convention -- would really help make the stdlib work consistently, and I bet third party libraries too. -Barry
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