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

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 17, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
>> 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).
>
> If you also had
>
>    var = bytes(u"foo")
>
> then I guess people would prefer that. People who want to save typing
> can do
>
>    b = bytes
>
> and, given that the u prefix will be redundant, write
>
>   var = b("foo")

How would you embed raw bytes if the string was unicode?  Maybe there 
should be something roughly equivalent to this:

bytesvar = r"delimited packet\x00".decode("string_escape")

"string_escape" would probably be a bad name for it, of course.

-bob