[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)
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Fri Aug 13 16:10:42 CEST 2004
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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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