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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 19 20:38:48 CEST 2004

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.

I'm not sure, but I expect that in most cases they use Unicode strings in order to be compatibly with Python's standard library. That's not the outcome I'd like to see though. I believe Jython at least also has a bytes-like type (probably a thin wrapper around Java's byte array) that's used for interfacing to java classes.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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