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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Aug 19 00:39:22 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 18:36, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

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.

Agreed!

-Barry

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