[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Aug 30 03:05:39 CEST 2004
Dima Dorfman <dima at trit.org>:
> It supports the "read" buffer API but not the "character" buffer API,
> so the file has to be opened in binary mode for it to work:
If we're serious about bytes not being characters, isn't
this the *right* behaviour for a byte array?
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