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On 6 Jan 2014 21:58, "Mark Lawrence" <<a href="mailto:breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk">breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 06/01/2014 08:28, Geert Jansen wrote:<br>
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>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Ethan Furman <<a href="mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us">ethan@stoneleaf.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> As anyone who has worked with Python 3 and low-level protocols knows, Python<br>
>>> 3 has no 'bytestring' type. It has immutable and mutable versions of arrays<br>
>>> of integers, otherwise known as 'bytes' and 'bytearray'.<br>
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>>> How many would be interested in having a 'bytestring'?<br>
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>> I'm not missing a new type, but I am missing the format method on the<br>
>> binary types.<br>
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>> Regards,<br>
>> Geert<br>
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> Is this what the new PEP 460 is aimed at or am I again barking in the wrong forest?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yep, parallel discussions.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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> Mark Lawrence<br>
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