[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Fri Aug 13 11:11:18 CEST 2004
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >> That's why I think a special literal is necessary. There'd be no
> >> unicode foolishness involved. ;-) They'd just be raw uninterpreted
> >> bytes.
>
> Martin> But you'd spell them b"GET", no? If so, which numeric value has
> Martin> "G"?
>
> Good point...
I don't think I understand the example...
What's binary about 'GET' ?
Why would you want to put non-ASCII into a binary literal
definition ?
If we switch the binding of 'yyy' to mean unicode('yyy')
some day, why can't we just continue to use the existing implementation
for 8-bit strings for b'xxx' (the current implementation is already
doing the right thing, meaning that it is 8-bit safe regardeless
of the source code encoding) ?
Thanks,
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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