[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)
Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Aug 17 16:49:54 CEST 2004
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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.
Mutable is far far more useful. I can't see them being used commonly for dict keys, but I do know of a lot of protocols where you have to go back and patch a 'length' field in a packet header after you've finished the packet construction.
Maybe we could use the @ symbol for the byte literal?
Anthony
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