[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/05/2014 12:30 PM, Łukasz Langa wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> On 01/05/2014 11:33 AM, Ethan Furman 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'?
>>
>> +1
>
> "I don't always +1 on python-ideas, but when I do, I do it on my own posts."

+1 QOTW !