[Python-ideas] Python 3.x and bytes

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Bruce Leban writes:

 > I recognize that the compiler can optimize:
 > 
 > > if bytesdata[i] == b'x'[0]:
 > 
 > but that looks like chicken scratches to me.

Using named constants should fix that, and is better style anyway.

 > Someone suggested using 0'x' which I don't quite get. It looks too much like
 > 0x to me

True but minor, IMO YMMV.

 > and the I've always read the leading zero to mean 'this is a
 > number'.

That's precisely Nick's point in suggesting it!