[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Paul Moore]

On 16/09/2007, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> > 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?
>
> +42 !!!!

I knew this would come up again when I made that comment - I
deliberately didn't express an opinion then, as I didn't want to
obscure the point. But I'll come off the fence and admit that I'm also
in favour of an immutable bytes type (and for bytes literals to be of
that type).

Paul.