[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Aug 17 13:13:29 CEST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I see that as a huge case for a bytes type, which I've proposed myself; but what's the use case for bytes literals, assuming you can write bytes("foo")? Does b"foo" really make much of a difference? Is it so hard to have to write bytes([0x66, 0x6f, 0x6f]) instead of b"\x66\x6f\x6f"?

It's a pretty marginal case for it. I just played with it a bit, and I think after playing with it, I actually prefer the non b'' case.

A big +1 for a bytes() type, though. I'm not sure on the details, but it'd be nice if it was possible to pass a bytes() object to, for instance, write() directly.

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