[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> This is indeed the question.  I agree it's unlikely, and you can
> presumably do something like convert a bytes() instance into a tuple
> of small integers if you really want to key into a dict.

Or even a Unicode string using the Latin-1 encoding. :-)

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