[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 7 10:54:49 CEST 2007
Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
> If you have mutable bytes and need an
> immutable object, you could 1) convert it to an int (probably
> big-endian),
That's not a reversible transformation, because you lose
information about leading zero bits.
> 4) use the deprecated str8 type
Which won't exist in Py3k, so it'll be a bit hard to use...
--
Greg
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