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

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> 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/)

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