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Fri Mar 17 02:39:50 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062489.html

On 3/16/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> BTW, is anyone else bothered that the term "bytes object"
> is a bit cumbersome? Also confusing as to whether it's
> singular or plural. Could we perhaps call it a bytevector
> or bytearray or something?

Doesn't really bother me. You could call it a bytes array (especially
since I expect it will start off as a subclass of the array.array
class). I'd still like the built-in name to be 'bytes'.

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

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