[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Amber Yust]

How would you see this bytestring type as differentiating itself from
bytes? What use cases do you envision?

On Sun Jan 05 2014 at 11:56:46 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> As anyone who has worked with Python 3 and low-level protocols knows,
> Python 3 has no 'bytestring' type.  It has
> immutable and mutable versions of arrays of integers, otherwise known as
> 'bytes' and 'bytearray'.
>
> How many would be interested in having a 'bytestring'?
>
> What do you see as the distinguishing characteristics?
>
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