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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 4444740..065afb8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2573,16 +2573,6 @@ The representation of bytes objects uses the literal format (``b'...'``) since it is often more useful than e.g. ``bytes([46, 46, 46])``. You can always convert a bytes object into a list of integers using ``list(b)``. -.. note:: - For Python 2.x users: In the Python 2.x series, a variety of implicit - conversions between 8-bit strings (the closest thing 2.x offers to a - built-in binary data type) and Unicode strings were permitted. This was a - backwards compatibility workaround to account for the fact that Python - originally only supported 8-bit text, and Unicode text was a later - addition. In Python 3.x, those implicit conversions are gone - conversions - between 8-bit binary data and Unicode text must be explicit, and bytes and - string objects will always compare unequal. - .. _typebytearray: |