[Python-3000] Thoughts on new I/O library and bytecode

[Guido van Rossum]

FWIW, I've updated PEP 358 (the bytes object) to more closely reflect
my plans for it, showing the preservation of most string methods. It
should be updated on the website in a few minutes.

If someone would like to volunteer a small PEP on the b"..." literal I
would appreciate it. The main concern here is that bytes objects are
mutable; I think the right semantics will be that each time a b"..."
literal is evaluated a *new* bytes object is created, just like [1, 2,
3] constructs a new list each time it is evaluated. The alternative
would be a literal that could be modified in place, which reminds me
of the worst of Fortran.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)