[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Sep 16 02:44:52 CEST 2007

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Paul Moore wrote:

On 15/09/2007, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

similarly for the environment. os.environ dict should be bytes object keys and values You can't have bytes as keys - the type isn't hashable...

That's why people keep arguing for an immutable bytes types. I keep seeing long discussions that end up with a tortured mechanism for making the keys unicode. Why don't we just bite the bullet and make things easier and have the immutable bytes type?

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