[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 17 01:03:54 CEST 2007


Paul Moore wrote:

On 15/09/2007, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

similarly for the environment. os.environ dict should be bytes object keys and values You can't have bytes as keys - the type isn't hashable...

Has there been any consensus reached yet on whether there will be a frozenbytes type? I can see the non-hashability of bytes leading to lots of annoyances like this.

-- Greg



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