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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Aug 19 11:15:17 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Hmm, who ever said that we are going to drop the current 8-bit string implementation ?

I expect that in Python 3.0 aka Python 3000 we'll have only Unicode strings and byte arrays, so yes, the current 8-bit string implementation will eventually die. Jython and IronPython are ahead of us in this respect...

Ok, so I suppose that we can learn from Jython and IronPython in this respect...

How do they handle binary data and the interfacing between various I/O facilities, e.g. files, sockets, pipes, user input, etc.

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