[Python-3000] Should PyString (new bytes type) accept strings with encoding?

[Steven Bethard]

On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> C name    | 2.x          | 3.0a1      | 3.0a2               |
> ----------+--------------+------------+---------------------+
> PyUnicode | unicode  u"" | str     "" | str             ""  |
> PyString  | str       "" | str8   s"" | bytes           ""  |
> PyBytes   | N/A          | bytes  b"" | buffer  buffer(b"") |
> ----------+--------------+------------+---------------------+

That "" beside bytes in the 3.0a2 column should be b"" (that is, with
a "b" prefix), right?

STeVe
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