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["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> Yuck, yuck about the source file encoding part. Also, there is no way
>> to tell that a particular argument was passed a literal.
> 
> There is when compiling to bytecode; it goes in co_consts.
> 
>> The very
>> definition of "this was a literal" is iffy -- is x a literal when
>> passed to f below?
> 
>>   x = "abc"
>>   f(x)
> 
> No, it isn't.

By that definition, bytes never receives a constant.

Regards,
Martin