Hi,
While it may shock you, using bytes for "text" makes sense in some areas. Please read the Motivation of the PEP 461: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0461/#motivation
Victor
2017-11-21 15:37 GMT+01:00 Kirill Balunov kirillbalunov@gmail.com:
Currently, __repr__ and __str__ representation of bytes is the same. Perhaps it is worth making them different, this will make it easier to visually perceive them as a container of integers from 0 to 255, instead of a mixture of printable and non-printable ascii characters. It is proposed:
a) __str__ - leave unchanged b) __repr__ - represent as sequence of escaped hex
a = bytes([42,43,44,45,46]) a # Current
b'*+-./'
a # Proposed
b'\x2a\x2b\x2d\x2e\x2f'
As you can see, the second example is more easily perceived as a sequence, in which '' is also perceived as ',' in list or tuple. In addition, 2020 is close, it allows the new Pythonistas not to take them as an ascii mixture strings.
With kind regards, -gdg
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