On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Looking at this from the high-level perspective of Python, that makes it >> conceptually bytes not text. > > I don't see how this is always the case. From a high-level python > perspective it's definitely text. That's the whole point of base64!
Maybe what Python needs is an "ascii" type that's a subclass of both str and bytes, and requires that the contents be <0x80. It is text, so it can be combined with text strings; but it is also bytes, so when you combine it with bytes strings, it'll behave as most people expect. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
