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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, ocean-city, vstinner
Date	2009-03-17.19:41:46
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Message-id	<49BFFCF8.3040904@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<200903171807.47465.victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>

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STINNER Victor wrote: > STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > > Le Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:39:59 Hirokazu Yamamoto, vous avez écrit : >> Well, there is no conclusion which of your choices (a or b) is preferred. > > Guido just wrote in other mail thread (py3k: accept unicode for 'c' and byte > for 'C' in getarg?): > > "Yeah, mmap should be defined exclusively in terms of bytes." How does that answer the question? We know what data type to use for multiple bytes - but what data type should be used for a single byte?

STINNER Victor wrote:
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> Le Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:39:59 Hirokazu Yamamoto, vous avez écrit :
>> Well, there is no conclusion which of your choices (a or b) is preferred.
> 
> Guido just wrote in other mail thread (py3k: accept unicode for 'c' and byte 
> for 'C' in getarg?):
> 
>    "Yeah, mmap should be defined exclusively in terms of bytes."

How does that answer the question? We know what data type to use for
multiple bytes - but what data type should be used for a single byte?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-03-17 19:41:50	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, vstinner, ocean-city
2009-03-17 19:41:47	loewis	link	issue5391 messages
2009-03-17 19:41:46	loewis	create