[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r60283 - in python/trunk: Include/longintrepr.h Include/longobject.h Include/unicodeobject.h Misc/NEWS Modules/_fileio.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/unicodeobject.c setup.py (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Jan 26 18:50:43 CET 2008

On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Are you planning to backport bytearrays? I thought we had clearly decided to not backport any of the text/bytes model so that the Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure.

'bytearray' is a separate issue. It's a brand new type: a mutable byte array. Its status as a built-in and completely different API makes it much more convenient than using the old array module. Introducing bytearray is not going to disturb the balance between str/bytes/unicode.

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