[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)
M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Aug 18 19:55:52 CEST 2004
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Wouldn't it be possible to extend the existing buffer type to meet those standards ? Yes; you then need to change all codecs to return buffers from .encode.
I'm still not convinced that we can simply drop the existing immutable 8-bit string type and replace it with a mutable bytes or buffer type, e.g. would buffer.lower() work on the buffer itself or return a lowered copy ?
However, if that's where Python will be heading, then you're right (for most of the codecs: some might want to return Unicode objects, e.g. unicode-escape).
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