[Python-Dev] bytes type (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 3 23:02:37 CEST 2005

On 10/3/05, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Could the "bytes" type be just the same as the current "str" type but without the implicit unicode conversion ? Or am I missing some desired functionality ?

No. It will be a mutable array of bytes. It will intentionally resemble strings as little as possible. There won't be a literal for it.

But you will be able to convert between bytes and strings quite easily by specifying an encoding.

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