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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Aug 17 16:57:15 CEST 2004

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

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.

Goody.

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

ISTR Guido thought mutable was the way to go.

OK.

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.

Who cares? :-)

Will they need to be used as dict keys? Doesn't seem likely to me.

This is indeed the question. I agree it's unlikely, and you can presumably do something like convert a bytes() instance into a tuple of small integers if you really want to key into a dict.

Cheers, mwh

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