[Python-3000] Thoughts on new I/O library and bytecode (original) (raw)

Gareth McCaughan gareth.mccaughan at pobox.com
Sat Mar 3 23:58:53 CET 2007


On Saturday 03 March 2007 16:02, I wrote:

Here's an ugly, impure, but possibly practical answer: give each bytes object a single-bit flag meaning something like "mostly textual"; ... Obviously the flag wouldn't affect comparisons or hashing.

Josiah Carlson mailed me to point out that, duh, obviously the flag wouldn't affect hashing since bytes objects are mutable and therefore unhashable. :-)

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