[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/9/07, Joel Bender <jjb5 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Jason Orendorff wrote:
>
> > Hooks would help with that, or even eliminate the need altogether.
>
> IMHO, having a __bytes__ method would go a long way.

I've heard this before, but there are many different, equally
attractive ways to serialize objects to bytes (e.g. marshal, pickle,
repr + encode, etc.).

Bytes are not the same as strings, and you need to think differently about them.

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