[Python-Dev] Byte literals (was Re: [Python-checkins] Changing string constants to byte arrays ( r55119 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Byte literals (was Re: [Python-checkins] Changing string constants to byte arrays ( r55119 - in python/branches/py3k-struni/Lib: codecs.py test/test_codecs.py ))

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat May 5 17:00:35 CEST 2007

On Fri, May 04, 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote:

[-python-dev] On 5/4/07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote: On Friday 04 May 2007, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I also suggest making all bytes literals immutable to avoid running into any issues like the above. +1 from me. Rather than adding immutability to bytes objects (which has big implementation and type checking implications), consider using buffer(b"123") as an immutable bytes literal. You can freely concatenate and compare buffer objects with bytes objects.

I'm with MAL and Fred on making literals immutable -- that's safe and lots of newbies will need to use byte literals early in their Python experience if they pick up Python to operate on network data.

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