On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:19 PM Rhodri James <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/09/2019 13:31, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:27 PM Rhodri James <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 31/08/2019 12:31, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>> We call it a string, but a bytes object has as much in common with > >>> bytearray and with a list of integers as it does with a text string. > >> > >> You say that as if text strings aren't sequences of bytes. Complicated > >> and restricted sequences, I grant you, but no more so than a packet for > >> a given network protocol. > >> > > > > A text string is a sequence of characters. By "byte", I really mean > > "octet", but Python prefers to say "byte". > > And a character is a byte or sequence of bytes. (Odd-sized bytes are > pretty much history now, so for non-pendantic usages "byte" is good enough.) >
But a character is not an octet. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WBCSWDRSBI522KPD7FWEM7HHFJBWCSJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
