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Thu Aug 19 03:39:33 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/048033.html

> Hmm, who ever said that we are going to drop the current 8-bit
> string implementation ?

I expect that in Python 3.0 aka Python 3000 we'll have only Unicode
strings and byte arrays, so yes, the current 8-bit string
implementation will eventually die.  Jython and IronPython are ahead
of us in this respect...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python