[Python-3000] PEP 3137: Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 27 19:41:08 CEST 2007
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I didn't miss it, and I don't disagree, I just don't think it has much bearing on the discussion (which is whether to go with this proposal at all).
On 9/27/07, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Thinking through the consequences, and noticing that using the array > module as an ersatz mutable bytes type is far from ideal, and > recalling a proposal put forward earlier by Talin, I floated the > suggestion to have both a mutable and an immutable bytes type. (This > had been brought up before, but until seeing the evidence of Jeffrey's > patch I wasn't open to the suggestion.)
One thing that you may have missed from my proposal is that both 'bytes' and 'buffer' inherit from a common ABC. This ABC defines all of the operations which 'bytes' and 'buffer' have in common. My name for this ABC was 'ByteSequence', but I have no particular attachment to that name. -- Talin
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