Message 83696 - Python tracker

> Oh, I though that the question was about bytes vs str :-/ Ocean-city 
> and I prefer the solution (a). And you Martin?

I also think that ints should be used to represent individual bytes.

However, your list of alternatives is incomplete: we *could* also change
the "c" code to accept and produce int - then mmapmodule would not need
to change at all.