[Python-3000] PEP 3137: Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 27 04:38:13 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm still undecided (despite Marcin's eloquent argument for ints as bytes) but I'm open for votes for this case.

Whatever is done, please don't do it only to make conversion from 2.x easy. There should be good independent reasons for whatever is chosen.

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