Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Py3's byte strings are still strings, though.
Hm. I don't think so. In a plain English sense, maybe, but that kind of usage can lead to confusion. For example, A subscription selects an item of a sequence (string, tuple or list) or mapping (dictionary) object: subscription ::= primary "[" expression_list "]" [...] A string’s items are characters. A character is not a separate data type but a string of exactly one character. <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#subscripti ons> The text is probably a bit buggy since it skates over bytes and byte arrays listed as sequences (by <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html>). However, your Python3 implementation would fail if it interpreted bytes objects to be strings in the above paragraph: >>> "abc"[1] 'b' >>> b'abc'[1] 98 The subscription of a *string* evaluates to a *string*. The subscription of a *bytes* object evaluates to a *number*. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
