[Python-Dev] bytes type discussion (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Wed Feb 15 01:41:07 CET 2006


[Guido van Rossum]

Somewhat controversial:

- bytes("abc") == bytes(map(ord, "abc"))

At first glance, this seems obvious and necessary, so if it's somewhat controversial, then I'm missing something. What's the issue?

Raymond



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