[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 8 04:57:30 CEST 2007
Talin wrote:
> 4) Literals of both types are available - using a prefix of small 'b'
> for bytes, and capitol B for 'buffer'.
I don't see that it would be really necessary to have a
distinct syntax for a buffer constructor (no literal!)
because you could always write
buffer(b"...")
This is what it would have to be doing underneath
anyway.
--
Greg
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