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

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> ... 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) ?

    Martin> Not exactly - the current implementation is not safe with
    Martin> respect to re-encoding source in a different encoding.

Can't such re-encoding tools (whatever they are) be intelligent about
b"..."?  If they are Python-aware that seems fairly trivial.  If not, the
job is more difficult.

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