[Python-Dev] The bytes type

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Fri Jan 12 20:00:10 CET 2007


On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:49:13AM -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I think we should draw a line in the sand and resolve not to garbage-up 
> Py2.6.
> The whole Py3.0 project is about eliminating cruft and being free of the
> bonds of backwards compatibility.  Adding non-essential cruft to Py2.6
> goes against that philosophy.

We could add the bytes type to Jython only and leave it out of the 2.x
series.  That still requires nailing down the semantics of 'bytes'.

--amk



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