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		sirclueless on March 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Django's future, and Python 3 Perhaps, but the lack of bytestrings seems to be what bites everyone. It's the only "deep" change and it affects anyone who wants to slice raw bytes (which includes most web frameworks).

koenigdavidmj on March 14, 2012 | [–]

Python 3 has bytestrings. They look like this:

  b'foo'

And you can slice them up as you wish.

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