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

[Josiah Carlson]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> Thomas Wouters wrote:
> > 
> > I think you're confused. There isn't anything 'less generic' about the 
> > bytes literal. Both bytes([...]) and b"..." can express the full 256 
> > value range.
> 
> Yes, but it only makes sense to try to display it as
> characters if it's meant to represent characters in
> the first place. Otherwise you get something that
> looks like line noise.
> 
> BTW, I don't really think that bytes([104, 101, 108,
> 108, 111]) is the right way to display it either.
> There ought to be some kind of compact hex format.
> Maybe something like
> 
>     $[68656C6C6F]

I think it's a bad idea to choose a representation with any format that
isn't able to do the eval(repr(obj)) loop.  I'm not a fan of 'bytes([101,
108, ...])', nor do I like 'bytes([0xd7, 0x19, ...])'. 'bytes(b"stuff")'
is a bit redundant, but it would get the point across. I'm not sure I
*like* b"stuff", but I don't loathe it like I do the other two that are
passed lists.  Maybe 'bytes("stuff", "latin-1")', but then it is
underlying platform and/or file encoding sensitive.  It may be the case
that b"stuff" is the most concise and reasonable repr form...


 - Josiah