[Python-3000] PEP 3137: Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 27 04:38:13 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm still undecided (despite Marcin's eloquent argument for ints as
> bytes) but I'm open for votes for this case.

Whatever is done, please don't do it *only* to make
conversion from 2.x easy. There should be good
independent reasons for whatever is chosen.

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