[Python-Dev] Byte string class hierarchy

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 18:36, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:16:33AM +0200, Jack Jansen wrote:
> > genericbytes
> > 	mutablebytes
> > 	bytes
> > 		genericstring
> > 			string
> > 			unicode
> 
> I think characters (unicode or otherwise) should not be confused
> with bytes.  Having 'unicode' as a subclass of 'bytes' is very
> confusing to me.

Agreed!

-Barry

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