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

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/07/2014 12:08 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:07:15 -0800
> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> On 01/07/2014 11:59 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:57:04 -0800
>>> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nothing at all, and that part works fine.
>>>>
>>>> The trouble (for me) comes in when I try to use single bytes,
>>>> either when creating or extracting.
>>>
>>> Hmm... aren't you exagerating the trouble? It's not very difficult to
>>> work with single bytes in Python 3...
>>
>> No, I'm not.  I don't think of b'C' as the integer 67 any more than I
>> think of the number 256 as the bytes b'\x01\xFF'.
>
> Ethan, can you please show a practical issue you're having?

Seriously?  You've already agreed with me on my first two points at the beginning of this thread.  It's safe to assume I 
was having practical issues with those points.

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~Ethan~