Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

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Date	Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:46:58 -0800
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On 01/05/2014 05:14 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
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> 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~

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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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