June 13, 2011
11:40 p.m.
At 03:11 PM 6/13/2011 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Agreed, but:
EOH, CHAR, DATE, FLOAT, INT, LOGICAL, MEMO, NUMBER = b'\rCDFILMN'
is a shorter way to write the same thing.
Going two per line makes it easier to mentally map the characters:
EOH, CHAR = b'\rC' DATE, FLOAT = b'DF' INT, LOGICAL = b'IL' MEMO, NUMBER = b'MN'
Wow. I didn't realize that could be done. That very nearly makes up for not being able to do it one char at a time.
You can still do it one at a time: CHAR, = b'C' INT, = b'I' ... etc. I just tried it with Python 3.1 and it works there.