On 9/8/21 1:21 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > NOTE: my objection to “bchr”, whether as a builtin or not is not the functionality, it’s the > name. Equating a byte with a character is a legacy of C ( and Python 2” — in Python 3, they > are completely distinct concepts.
No, they aren't. If you are working in a domain that uses ascii encoding (such as many network protocols), then those bytes represent characters -- this is why, for example, %-interpolation was added back to bytes.
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