[Python-3000] about bytes

[Terry Reedy]

> Only if you didn't know that b'' is an alternative to bytes(). The b''
> notation is so much more compact and so  much more helpful that I
> really don't want to go back to it. We will somehow have to deal with
> this through education and documentation.

http://bugs.python.org/issue3220
Improve Bytes and Byte Array Methods doc

makes several suggestions.  For the issue here, I suggested (at the 
bottom) adding

"Just as a bytes objects can be constructed either with a literal or a 
class constructor call, they could be represented on output either by a 
literal or class constructor call.  The literal was chosen as being 
shorter, generally more useful, and consistent with how other classes 
are displayed.  Similarly, the display of bytearrays uses the 
corresponding bytes literal.  If you want to see the bytes of either 
class as integers, use tuple.

 >>> a, b = b'abc', bytes((1,2,3))
 >>> a,b
(b'abc', b'\x01\x02\x03')
 >>> tuple(a), tuple(b)
((97, 98, 99), (1, 2, 3))
 >>> c = bytearray(a)
 >>> c, tuple(c)
(bytearray(b'abc'), (97, 98, 99))
"

I am assuming that there is no .to_int method that I missed.

Terry Jan Reedy