[storm] Should storm have separate String and Blob datatypes?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Right, but in one version of Python "str" means raw bytes, and "bytes"
> means raw bytes as well, and on another one "str" actually means
> unicode, and "bytes" means something newly introduced which is
> incompatible.  This scheme feels like a pretty poor choice to me due
> to the ambiguities.  Types are named exactly the same way, but behave
> very differently.

Here is a more careful analysis of why I think this is bad:

http://blog.labix.org/2009/07/02/screwing-up-python-compatibility-unicode-str-bytes

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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