[Python-3000] Should PyString (new bytes type) accept strings with encoding? (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 18:54:43 CEST 2007


On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

C name | 2.x | 3.0a1 | 3.0a2 | ----------+--------------+------------+---------------------+ PyUnicode | unicode u"" | str "" | str "" | PyString | str "" | str8 s"" | bytes "" | PyBytes | N/A | bytes b"" | buffer buffer(b"") | ----------+--------------+------------+---------------------+

That "" beside bytes in the 3.0a2 column should be b"" (that is, with a "b" prefix), right?

STeVe

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