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Sat Jan 26 18:57:23 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076534.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>   
>> Are you planning to backport bytearrays?
>> I thought we had clearly decided to *not* backport any of the text/bytes model so that the
>> Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure.
>>     
>
> 'bytearray' is a separate issue. It's a brand new type: a *mutable*
> byte array. Its status as a built-in and completely different API
> makes it much more convenient than using the old array module.
> Introducing bytearray is not going to disturb the balance between
> str/bytes/unicode.
>   
I'm looking forward to having a native mutable bytes type in Python 2.x.

Michael Foord

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