[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 7 10:21:28 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Personally, I still think that converting to the latin-1 encoding is
> probably just as good for this particular use case.

Although that's a conceptually screwy thing to do
when your data has nothing to do with characters.

--
Greg


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