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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Fri Jan 12 23:57:18 CET 2007

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> 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.

But a "byte" already has a standard definition in the realm of computer science and/or programming, and that definition is singular. No one will think that a byte is a container or a sequence (which is more or less what it is), they will think it is like a C 'char'. Bytes, on the other hand, at least lets people know from the first read that it is a container or sequence of some kind. Of what? Bytes.

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