[Python-3000] Thoughts on new I/O library and bytecode

[Georg Brandl]

Giovanni Bajo schrieb:
> On 24/02/2007 11.20, Georg Brandl wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Wouters schrieb:
>>>
>>> That's exactly what it does in current p3yk:
>>>
>>> Python 3.0x (p3yk:53867M, Feb 23 2007, 20:06:03)
>>> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>  >>> b"""abc
>>> ... def"""
>>> bytes([0x61, 0x62, 0x63, 0x0a, 0x64, 0x65, 0x66])
>> 
>> Seeing that, I made a patch that makes bytes_repr output a bytes literal,
>> see attached diff.
> 
> I thought that the repr format of bytes was a deliberate choice to make life 
> harder to people trying to use bytes to handle text.

That contradicts the "consenting adults" mantra. If a bytes object contains
readable text (and that's not going to be exceptional), it should not be
obscured -- in any case, I can just call str() on it and get my text.

PEP 358 now states "Now that a b"..." literal exists, shouldn't repr()
return one?" which suggests that the repr was the most canonical way
to represent the bytes object at a time when there was no literal.

Georg