On 2006-10-04 05:10:32 +0200, John Machin wrote: > > - str methods endswith, find, partition, replace, split(lines), > > startswith, > > - Regular expressions > > > > I think those can be useful on a bytes type. Perhaps bytes and str could > > share a common parent class? They certainly share a lot of properties > > and possible operations one might want to perform. > > > > I look at it this way:: > Processing text? Use unicode. > Binary structures and file I/O, interfacing to 8-bit-wide channels? Use > bytes.
But can I use regular expressions on bytes? Regular expressions are not limited to text. Gerrit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
