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

[Greg Ewing]

Dima Dorfman <dima at trit.org>:

> It supports the "read" buffer API but not the "character" buffer API,
> so the file has to be opened in binary mode for it to work:

If we're serious about bytes not being characters, isn't
this the *right* behaviour for a byte array?

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