A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
> On 2007-08-15, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>or the mildy
>>amusing "how do I write bytes not characters to a file" questions at least
>>once
>>a week on this forum.
Actually, that's a reasonable question, and one that Python didn't do
quite right.
Remember, in the beginning, Python had only ASCII strings, which
were equivalent to arrays of bytes. Then came Unicode strings. Then
came the restriction of ASCII chars to 0..127. Except that you can
still store binary bytes in ASCII strings, subject to some limitations.
The next logical step is a complete separation of binary data handling
from text string handling, probably using some type in "numarray" for
arrays of bytes.
John Nagle
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