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

[Roman Suzi]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:
>>>A big +1 for a bytes() type, though. I'm not sure on the details,
>>>but it'd be nice if it was possible to pass a bytes() object to,
>>>for instance, write() directly.
>>
>> If bytes() doesn't implement the read buffer interface, someone
>> somewhere is going to need shooting :-)
>
>Is there any reason you cannot use buffer() ?!

Is it mutable?
My guess: no:

>>> d = u'123124'
>>> ddd[0]
'1'
>>> ddd[1]
'\x00'
>>> ddd[1] = '1'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: buffer is read-only

>It already implements all the necessary things and has been
>available for many years.

It was in the shadows because we had byte-strings.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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