[issue5391] mmap: read_byte/write_byte and object type

["Martin v. Löwis" <report@bugs.python.org> at psf.upfronthosting.co.za]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> Le Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:39:59 Hirokazu Yamamoto, vous avez écrit :
>> Well, there is no conclusion which of your choices (a or b) is preferred.
> 
> Guido just wrote in other mail thread (py3k: accept unicode for 'c' and byte 
> for 'C' in getarg?):
> 
>    "Yeah, mmap should be defined exclusively in terms of bytes."

How does that answer the question? We know what data type to use for
multiple bytes - but what data type should be used for a single byte?

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