[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python

[Aahz]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> What's binary about 'GET' ?

It's an ASCII, human-readable representation of a set of bytes sent over
a network interface to command a server.  It could just as easily have
been "\010\011\012", but it was selected for the convenience of
English-speaking humans.
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