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Changes ahead for Python

Posted Sep 14, 2007 18:39 UTC (Fri) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668)
In reply to: Changes ahead for Python by walters
Parent article: Changes ahead for Python

If you think of it as "Character String" vs. "Byte String" I don't think there's an issue. A character string is a string of characters, which is to say codes that form valid characters in some predetermined encoding, whereas a 'byte string' is a string of completly arbitrary bytes.

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