[Python-Dev] raw binary data and 2to3 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Nov 9 03:42:47 CET 2009

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2009/11/8  <skip at pobox.com>:

SpamBayes has several files which contain raw 8-bit data embedded in string literals.  Before I do manual work to make them parseable by 2to3 I thought I would ask if there was either a fixer available which I'm not getting by default or if there is an opportunity to add a new fixer to 2to3. The usage is pretty straightforward.  For example, a string literal might contain the bytes for a GIF image:  data = "GIF89a(..." Is there a potentially automated path from where the code is today to something Python 3 (and 2to3) will like? Not to my knowledge. I would prefer to not add a fixer for this directly to 2to3 because it is not correct for most programs. However, I think 2to3 should grow some sort of plugin system, so custom fixers can easily be written and used.

But if you're happy with only supporting 2.6, you can use b"..." and the right thing will happen.

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