[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:11 PM 6/13/2011 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Agreed, but:
> >
> > EOH, CHAR, DATE, FLOAT, INT, LOGICAL, MEMO, NUMBER = b'\rCDFILMN'
> >
> > is a shorter way to write the same thing.
> >
> > Going two per line makes it easier to mentally map the characters:
> >
> > EOH, CHAR = b'\rC'
> > DATE, FLOAT = b'DF'
> > INT, LOGICAL = b'IL'
> > MEMO, NUMBER = b'MN'
>
>Wow.  I didn't realize that could be done.  That very nearly makes 
>up for not being able to do it one char at a time.

You can still do it one at a time:

CHAR, = b'C'
INT,  = b'I'
...

etc.  I just tried it with Python 3.1 and it works there.