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

[Greg Ewing]

> However, byte strings used in source code are not "safe" if they
> are encoded in ISO-8859-1 under recoding: If the source code is
> converted to UTF-8 (including the encoding declaration), then
> the length of the strings changes, as do the byte values inside
> the string.

This suggests that byte string literals should be
restricted to ASCII characters and \x escapes.
Would that be safe enough?

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