[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)
Tony Meyer t-meyer at ihug.co.nz
Tue Aug 17 09:24:26 CEST 2004
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[Martin v. Löwis]
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?
I don't know about shtoom, but Mike Fletcher's resourcepackage does. (It packages up non-*.py files as *.py files). I believe that the main point of resourcepackage is for ease of distribution (but could be wrong), so perhaps better distribution tools make this unnecessary. It is an example use-case, though.
=Tony Meyer
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