[Python-Dev] bytes type

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/3/05, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Could the "bytes" type be just the same as the current "str" type but
> without the implicit unicode conversion ? Or am I missing some desired
> functionality ?

No. It will be a mutable array of bytes. It will intentionally
resemble strings as little as possible. There won't be a literal for
it.

But you will be able to convert between bytes and strings quite easily
by specifying an encoding.

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