[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Wed Aug 18 11:02:40 CEST 2004
Paul Prescod wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> We already have a number of read-write types for storing binary
>> data, e.g. arrays, cStringIO and buffers. Inventing yet another
>> way to spell binary data won't make life easier.
>
> The point is canonicalize one and start to make APIs that expect it.
> Otherwise we will never make the leap from the bad habit of using
> strings as byte arrays.
>
> Can you pass arrays to the write() function? Can
> you decode buffers to strings? A byte array type would have a certain
> mix of functions and API compatibility that is missing from the plethora
> of similar thingees.
Wouldn't it be possible to extend the existing buffer type
to meet those standards ?
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