[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack

[Guido van Rossum]

ByteSequence.

On 10/15/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > > There's one thing that I forgot to add to PEP 3137. It's the removal
> > > of the basestring type. I think this is a reasonable thing to do.
> > > Christian Heimes has a patch that does this cleanly. Anyone objecting,
> > > please speak up now!
> >
> > And, quite separately, we will need a common base type for bytes and
> > buffer. I think that should be an ABC in the collections module
> > though, which simply registers bytes and buffer. Any suggestions for a
> > name?
>
> BinaryData, RawData.  I use both 'binary' and 'raw' in my variable
> names when I have used bytes so that's why those names pop into my
> head.
>
> -Brett
>


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