[Python-Dev] buffer('abc') == 'abc' is False ?!

2002年10月16日 13:19:07 -0400

> I do think there should be a string type for binary data, and that the
> standard string type should become Unicode one day. There was past
> discussion about this, at which proponents suggest that there should
> be even binary literals.
>> Of course, all I/O would use the binary, unless an encoding was
> specified when creating the stream.

Maybe it's time for a PEP outlining and detailing this view of the future?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)