[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 16 03:47:55 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

So how about openbytes? This clearly links the resulting object with the bytes type, which is mutually reassuring.

That looks quite nice.

Another thought -- what is going to happen to os.open? Will it change to return bytes, or will there be a new os.openbytes?

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