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

[Guido van Rossum]

> Hmm, who ever said that we are going to drop the current 8-bit
> string implementation ?

I expect that in Python 3.0 aka Python 3000 we'll have only Unicode
strings and byte arrays, so yes, the current 8-bit string
implementation will eventually die.  Jython and IronPython are ahead
of us in this respect...

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