[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/05/2014 05:29 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 05Jan2014 12:51, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> 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 !
>
> +1 QOTW
>
> ... but doesn't your +1 falsify the quote you're +1ing?

Hrmmm.... well, just in case:

+2!