[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Nicholas Bastin]

On 9/15/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/09/2007, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> > similarly for the environment.  os.environ dict
> > should be bytes object keys and values
>
> You can't have bytes as keys - the type isn't hashable...

Then lets stop beating around the bush and implement an immutable
bytes type.  Why put ourselves through contortions trying to jam a
square peg into a round hole and not just decide to make a round peg?

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Nick