[Python-Dev] Byte string class hierarchy

[Michael Hudson]

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> writes:

> I may have missed a crucial bit of the discussion, having been away,
> so if this is completely besides the point let me know. But my feeling
> is that the crucial bit is the type inheritance graph of all the byte
> and string types. And I wonder whether the following graph would help
> us solve most problems (aside from introducing one new one, that may
> be a showstopper):
>
> genericbytes
> 	mutablebytes
> 	bytes
> 		genericstring
> 			string
> 			unicode

Um, I was thinking the hierarchy would look like this:

object
    unicode
    bytes

Cheers,
mwh

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