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

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 01:41:57 CEST 2007

On 16-Sep-07, at 4:03 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

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... Has there been any consensus reached yet on whether there will be a frozenbytes type? I can see the non-hashability of bytes leading to lots of annoyances like this.

Might it make things clearer to use something other than the X/ frozenX nomenclature?

bytes -> b'HELO' -> immutable octet list

bytebuf -> mutable octet buffer (current bytes() objects)

buf = bytebuf() buf.append(read(1024)) print buf

bytebuf(b'HELO')

-Mike

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