[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?] (original) (raw)

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 06:20:16 CET 2006


On 2/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Not entirely, since I don't know what b"abcdef" would mean (where is a Unicode Euro character typed in whatever source encoding was used).

SyntaxError I would hope. Ascii and hex escapes only please. :)

Although I'm not arguing for or against byte literals. They do make for a much terser form, but they're not strictly necessary.

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus



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