text_combined: gregory p smith amuhkryptoorg 3208 christian heimes wrote alex martelli wrote yep please keep pyunicode str pystring bytes macrossynonnyms pystr pybytes want help task porting existing extensions bytearray functions doubt pybytearray though yeah weve already planed keep pyunicode prefix str type functions makes perfectly sense historical point view pystring planed rename prefix pybytes opinion going regret keep many legacy names 2x order make migration process easier add header file provides pystring_ functions aliases pybytes_ 1 via header must explicitly included modules wanting compatibility names tue 05 aug 2008 180043 0800 pythondev capi status python 3