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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/01/2014 09:59, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> Now that your proposal has been better explained, yes, I agree that
> "asciibytes" and "asciistr" types would be well worth experimenting
> with. I mention both, since it's far from clear if a str subclass or a
> bytes subclass (or neither, although that may require bug fixes in
> CPython) would be more convenient for this use case.
>

Could you subclass both to get the best of both worlds?  As in

class asciixyz(str, bytes):

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>



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