[Python-Dev] bytes type discussion

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:28:59PM +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> After reading some of the discussion, and seen some of the arguments,
> I'm beginning to feel that we need working code to get this right.
> 
> It would be nice if we could get a bytes() type into the first alpha, so
> the design can get some real-world exposure in real-world apps/libs be-
> fore 2.5 final.

I agree that working code would be nice, but I don't see why it should be in
an alpha release. IMHO it shouldn't be in an alpha release until it at least
looks good enough for the developers, and good enough to put in a PEP.

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