June 12, 2011
5:18 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Proposals to address this include: - introduce a "character" literal to allow c'a' as an alternative to ord('a')
-1; the result is not a *character* but an integer. I'm personally favoring using b'a'[0] and possibly hiding this in a constant definition.
Using this method, my code now looks like: # constants EOH = b'\r'[0] CHAR = b'C'[0] DATE = b'D'[0] FLOAT = b'F'[0] INT = b'I'[0] LOGICAL = b'L'[0] MEMO = b'M'[0] NUMBER = b'N'[0] This is not beautiful code. ~Ethan~