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| Date | 2014-01-05 16:46 -0800 |
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| From | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> |
| Subject | Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" |
| References | <lablra$1mc$2@ger.gmane.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.4994.1388972182.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 01/05/2014 05:14 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > Please don't shoot the messenger :) While I don't agree with his assessment of Python 3 in total, I definitely feel his pain with regards to bytestrings in Py3 -- because they don't exist. 'bytes' /looks/ like a bytestring, but really it's just a bunch of integers: --> b'abc 'b'abc' --> b'abc'[1] 98 Maybe for 3.5 somebody *cough* will make a bytestring type for those of us who have to support the lower-level protocols... -- ~Ethan~ *Cast your vote over on Python Ideas!
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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-05 16:46 -0800
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