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

[Greg Ewing]

> I'm still not convinced that we can simply drop the existing
> immutable 8-bit string type and replace it with a mutable bytes or
> buffer type, e.g. would buffer.lower() work on the buffer itself or
> return a lowered copy ?

Byte strings probably shouldn't have a lower() method at all, or any
other method that assumes the contents represent characters.

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