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Sat Jan 19 19:53:42 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076316.html

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> bytes is an alias for str (not even a subclass)
> b"" is an alias for ""

One advantage of a subclass is that there could be a flag that warns
about combining bytes and unicode data.  For example, b"x" + u"y"
would produce a warning.  As someone who writes internationalized
software, I would happly use both the byte designating syntax and
the warning flag, even if I wasn't planning to move to Python 3.

  Neil

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