Who told str() to round my int()'s!!!

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-08-16, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>>or the mildy amusing "how do I write bytes not characters to a
>>>file" questions at least once a week on this forum.
>
>     Actually, that's a reasonable question, and one that Python didn't do
> quite right.
>
>     Remember, in the beginning, Python had only ASCII strings, which
> were equivalent to arrays of bytes.  Then came Unicode strings.  Then
> came the restriction of ASCII chars to 0..127.  Except that you can
> still store binary bytes in ASCII strings, subject to some limitations.
>
>     The next logical step is a complete separation of binary data handling
> from text string handling, probably using some type in "numarray" for
> arrays of bytes.

Python 3000 makes unicode the standard string type, and ushers in
a new type name for the old str type called, I think, 'bytes'. So
the 3000 devs seem to agree with you to some extent.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
Ushers will eat latecomers. --Church Bulletin Blooper