[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Aug 14 09:48:45 CEST 2004


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

If we switch the binding of 'yyy' to mean unicode('yyy') some day, why can't we just continue to use the existing implementation for 8-bit strings for b'xxx' (the current implementation is already doing the right thing, meaning that it is 8-bit safe regardeless of the source code encoding) ?

Not exactly - the current implementation is not safe with respect to re-encoding source in a different encoding.

Regards, Martin



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