[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Aug 13 16:10:42 CEST 2004


On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

What's binary about 'GET' ?

It's an ASCII, human-readable representation of a set of bytes sent over a network interface to command a server. It could just as easily have been "\010\011\012", but it was selected for the convenience of English-speaking humans.

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