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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 17 09:06:23 CEST 2004

Anthony Baxter wrote:

Ok. Here's a case - in shtoom, I generate audio data. Lots of audio data. This is broken into packets, then gets a small header put onto each RTP packet. Right now, I'm using strings for this. If there was a 'byte literal', I'd use it. This isn't a huge problem right now, because strings are good enough. But if we end up in an 'all the strings are unicode', I'll need some way to construct these packets.

Maybe you are missing the point here, maybe not: there is no debate that Python should always have a byte string type (although there is debate on whether that type should be mutable).

The current question is whether you want to denote objects of the byte string type in source code. I.e. do you have the "Lots of audio data" stored in .py files?

Regards, Martin

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