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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 15 20:04:07 CET 2006


Adam Olsen wrote:

Making it an error to have 8-bit str literals in 2.x would help educate the user that they will change behavior in 3.0 and not be 8-bit str literals anymore.

You would like to ban string literals from the language? Remember: all string literals are currently 8-bit (byte) strings.

Regards, Martin



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