[Python-Dev] buffer('abc') == 'abc' is False ?!

[Guido van Rossum]

> > So, apart from the Python 2.1 requirement, subclassing str does the
> > trick, right?
> 
> Right.
> 
> Would be nice if there were a standard builtin, e.g. binary(),
> for this and maybe some support code to go with it in C (e.g.
> the type object would be nice to have at C level).

I disagree.  There are a thousand different applications, and yours
seems rather unusual to me.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)