[Python-Dev] adding a bytes sequence type to Python

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> My intent in proposing b"..." literals was that they would be allowed in any
> source file.  Their contents would not be interpreted in any way.

I think this is a bad idea.  If a coding cookie says a file is in
utf-8, then the file really has to be valid utf-8 data, for
implementation sanity and not freaking out editors.  The use-case for
including arbitrary chunks of binary data in a source file seems
stretched in the extreme.

Cheers,
mwh

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