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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Aug 18 20:06:37 CEST 2004

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I'm still not convinced that we can simply drop the existing immutable 8-bit string type and replace it with a mutable bytes or buffer type, e.g. would buffer.lower() work on the buffer itself or return a lowered copy ?

The byte string type would not have a .lower method, as "lowering" is not meaningful for bytes, only for characters.

Regards, Martin

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