[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/6/20 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:40:56 -0400
> "P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I would say that it's more that (in the network protocol
>> case) we *have* bytes, some of which we would like to *treat* as
>> text, yet do not wish to constantly convert back and forth to
>> full-blown unicode
>
> Well, then why don't you just stick with a bytes object?

There are not many tools for treating bytes as text.



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Regards,
Benjamin