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

Nicholas Bastin nick.bastin at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 04:00:25 CEST 2007


On 9/15/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> 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...

Then lets stop beating around the bush and implement an immutable bytes type. Why put ourselves through contortions trying to jam a square peg into a round hole and not just decide to make a round peg?

-- Nick



More information about the Python-3000 mailing list