[New-bugs-announce] [issue1171] allow subclassing of bytes type

[Mathieu Fenniak]

New submission from Mathieu Fenniak:

Uploading patch to make bytes type subclassable.

As e-mailed to python-3000 list during discussion with Guido, attached
patch to make bytes type subclassable.  Included are unit tests, and a
minor fix for pickling subclass instances (including __dict__ in
bytes_reduce).

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files: bytes-subclass-patch.diff
messages: 55970
nosy: mfenniak
severity: minor
status: open
title: allow subclassing of bytes type
type: rfe
versions: Python 3.0

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