[Python-Dev] Byte string class hierarchy (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Aug 19 00:36:29 CEST 2004


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:16:33AM +0200, Jack Jansen wrote:

genericbytes mutablebytes bytes genericstring string unicode

I think characters (unicode or otherwise) should not be confused with bytes. Having 'unicode' as a subclass of 'bytes' is very confusing to me.

Neil



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