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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jan 12 22:49:12 CET 2007


Terry Reedy wrote:

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote in message news:20070112182248.GA15187 at localhost.localdomain... | [*] Anyone else keep wanting to write "byte type"?

All the other builtin types I can think of are singular. So I think byte should be also. The string holds 'a string' (singular), the bytes datatype will hold 'bytes' plural. Bytes is more accurate and I would stumble over byte.

Michael Foord


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