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

[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jun 22 18:53:00 CEST 2010

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:  This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep track of text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer do. Thanks Glyph.  That is a nice summary of one kind of challenge facing programmers.

Ironically, Glyph also described the pain in 2.x: it only "kinda" worked.

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