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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Terry Reedy writes:

 > The above describes a minor variation on bytes and seems to me to be a 
 > classic case for subclassing, whether in Python for ease or C for speed, 
 > in an imported module.

I agree with you, but the discussion on python-dev indicates that the
majority of core devs, including Guido IIUC, disagree with us.  In
fact they want to add many str-like capabilities to bytes (and the
related mutable classes bytearray and memoryview).