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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Aug 17 17:48:04 CEST 2004

At 08:31 AM 8/17/04 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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

Sure. > Is there any consensus forming on whether bytes() instances are > mutable or not? Mutable!

So, how will it be different from:

 from array import array

 def bytes(*initializer):
     return array('B',*initializer)

Even if it's desirable for 'bytes' to be an actual type (e.g. subclassing ArrayType), it might help the definition process to describe the difference between the new type and a byte array.

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