Martin v. Loewis wrote: > "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes: > > >>* signals "this data is binary data" >>* compares just fine to strings >>* gets accepted by all APIs which use the buffer interface to >> access the data >>* has a C API which can be used in extensions >>* is available in Python 2.1.x and up > > > I believe the string type meets all these requirements. Except one which was implicit: how to tell binary data from text data. This information can sometimes be deduced from the string content provided you know what text data means to you, but this doesn't always work, since sometimes binary data happens to look like text data (ie. use only character ordinals as data bytes). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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