[viraptor]

Could someone explain this part?

> Now this all would not be a problem if the bytestring type would still exist on Python 3, but it does not. It was replaced by the byte type which does not behave like a string.

I was under impression that bytes is just an array of bytes and provides pretty much what `str` provided. What big thing is missing from that interface?

[mcdonc]

http://docs.python.org/release/3.2.2/library/stdtypes.html#b...

And this annoying feature: http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html#indexing-byt...