[Python-Dev] The bytes type
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jan 12 22:49:12 CET 2007
Terry Reedy wrote:
> "A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote in message
> news:20070112182248.GA15187 at localhost.localdomain...
> | [*] Anyone else keep wanting to write "byte type"?
>
> All the other builtin types I can think of are singular. So I think byte
> should be also.
>
>
The string holds 'a string' (singular), the bytes datatype will hold
'bytes' plural. Bytes is more accurate and I would stumble over byte.
Michael Foord
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