[Python-ideas] a new bytestring type?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 Jan 2014 21:58, "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2014 08:28, Geert Jansen wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:33 PM, 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'?
>>
>>
>> I'm not missing a new type, but I am missing the format method on the
>> binary types.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Geert
>
>
> Is this what the new PEP 460 is aimed at or am I again barking in the
wrong forest?

Yep, parallel discussions.

Cheers,
Nick.

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