Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't think mixing bytes and strings makes good semantic sense.
It's not about mixing bytes and text -- it's about writing polymorphic code that will work on either bytes *or* text. Not both at the same time. If we had quantum computers, this would be easy to solve: asciistr would be of type str/sqrt(2) + bytes/sqrt(2), and everything would work out fine. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com