STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 13:06:53, vous avez écrit :
>> "s" accepts bytes via the buffer interface
> 
> No. "s*" and "s#" do accept any buffer compatible object (including bytes and 
> bytearray), but "s" doesn't.
> 
> I fixed recently the documentation about that.

Hmm, that sounds like an oversight to me. Why should "s" not accept
bytes when "s#" and "s*" do ?

The only difference between "s" and "s#" is that you work with
NUL-terminated strings as opposed to binary or text data with embedded
NULs. Even Unicode objects can contain embedded NULs, so from that
perspective there's no difference.