[Python-Dev] Py3k bytes type in 2.x (Re: nonlocal keyword in 2.x?)

[Nick Coghlan]

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.

Cheers,
Nick.

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