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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Aug 19 16:52:31 CEST 2004

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> writes:

I may have missed a crucial bit of the discussion, having been away, so if this is completely besides the point let me know. But my feeling is that the crucial bit is the type inheritance graph of all the byte and string types. And I wonder whether the following graph would help us solve most problems (aside from introducing one new one, that may be a showstopper):

genericbytes mutablebytes bytes genericstring string unicode

Um, I was thinking the hierarchy would look like this:

object unicode bytes

Cheers, mwh

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