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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Aug 17 15:26:31 CEST 2004 

Michael> Is this getting to (hopefully uncontroverisal!) PEP time?

One would hope. I sent in a skeletal PEP last week asking for a number but haven't heard back.

Michael> Is there any consensus forming on whether bytes() instances are
Michael> mutable or not?

ISTR Guido thought mutable was the way to go. I don't think that efficiency concerns will be a huge deal since it won't be used all over the place the way strings are. Will they need to be used as dict keys? Doesn't seem likely to me.

Skip

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