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

[Bill Janssen]

> Does b"foo" really make much of a difference?

Yes.  My guess is that if you leave it out, you'll see

  var = u"foo".encode("ASCII")

all over the place (assuming that encode() will produce a bytes type).
Wouldn't b"foo" be more readable all around?

> Is it so hard to have to write bytes([0x66, 0x6f, 0x6f]) instead of
> b"\x66\x6f\x6f"?

No, that's true.  But if you have a bytes literal syntax, might as
well allow \x in it.

Bill