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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 03:24, Tony Meyer wrote:

> I don't know about shtoom, but Mike Fletcher's resourcepackage does.  (It
> packages up non-*.py files as *.py files).  I believe that the main point of
> resourcepackage is for ease of distribution (but could be wrong), so perhaps
> better distribution tools make this unnecessary.  It is an example use-case,
> though.

I'd think that in most cases, huge globs of binary byte data would
better live in non-py data files.  I personally don't see much of a use
case for byte literals (although, +1 on a bytes type).  Byte literals
just aren't going to be commonly written by people I think, and any
programmatic generation of byte data should just as easily live outside
py files.

-Barry

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