[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Thu Aug 12 16:20:39 CEST 2004
> Guido:
> > Anyway, if we really do have enough use cases for byte array
> > literals, we might add them. I still think that would be confusing
> > though, because byte arrays are most useful if they are mutable: and
> > then we'd have mutable literals -- blechhhh!
Greg:
> Perhaps the constructor for a byte array could accept a string
> argument as long as it contained only ascii characters?
>
> h.putrequest(bytes('GET'), selector)
Yeah, but that's what Martin called depending on the default encoding.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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