[Python-ideas] RFC: bytestring as a str representation [was: a new bytestring type?]

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/06/2014 10:37 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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> Comments?

Having a 7-bit str variant is definitely an interesting idea, but it wouldn't help me and is probably insufficient for 
network protocols as well.  The binary data I deal with occupies the full 0-255 range, some of which is actually encoded 
text (and I decode it before passing it back to the user), some of which is simple binary data, and some of which is 
simple ASCII (metadata about fields and whatnot).

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~Ethan~