[Python-Dev] The bytes type (original) (raw)
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jan 13 08:38:57 CET 2007
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"Josiah Carlson" <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote in message news:20070112144746.8DB7.JCARLSON at uci.edu... || "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.
Okay, this pretty well convinces me. Opinion withdrawn.
tjr
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