PEP 263 comments

[Skip Montanaro]

    Martin> A byte string should certainly be able to store arbitrary
    Martin> bytes. Under Stephen's proposal, it would indeed not be possible
    Martin> anymore to put arbitrary binary data into source code.

It's clear from discussions on python-dev that, like Barry Warsaw, I wear
American sunglasses when exposed to the Unicode sun.

Just to make sure I understand correctly, under Stephen's propsal would

    s = "\xff"

be correct?  I assume

    s = "ÿ"

(a literal 0377 character) would be an error, yes?  That is, when you saw
"arbitrary binary data" you are referring to non-printable octets in the
source file, right?

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