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Sat Jan 13 08:38:57 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-January/070617.html

"Josiah Carlson" <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote in message 
news:20070112144746.8DB7.JCARLSON at uci.edu...
|
| "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
| > "A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote in message
| > news:20070112182248.GA15187 at localhost.localdomain...
| > | [*] Anyone else keep wanting to write "byte type"?
| >
| > All the other builtin types I can think of are singular.  So I think 
byte
| > should be also.
|
| But a "byte" already has a standard definition in the realm of computer
| science and/or programming, and that definition is singular.  No one
| will think that a byte is a container or a sequence (which is more or
| less what it is), they will think it is like a C 'char'.  Bytes, on the
| other hand, at least lets people know from the first read that it is a
| container or sequence of some kind.  Of what?  Bytes.

Okay, this pretty well convinces me.  Opinion withdrawn.

tjr

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[Python-Dev] The bytes type