[Python-3000] characters data type

[Fredrik Lundh]

Josiah Carlson wrote:

> I assure you, it takes me far longer to write these messages than it
> takes to read them.

I'm not so sure ;-)

> But it would be nice if *anyone* were to reply with
> something, *anything*, even "...I have low hopes for something useful
> coming out of this." (my favorite Guido quote, btw) would give me some
> perspective to either acknowledge my insanity, or the other thing.

I'm not so sure what it is you want some additional perspective on, but you're
arguing that byte objects should provide all non-text methods provided by to-
day's string type, I fully agree.

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