[Python-Dev] bytes (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 10:25:26 CEST 2010

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:28:45PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

A thought on this polystr type: perhaps it could be called "ascii", since that's what it would have to be restricted to, and have

a'xxx' as a literal syntax for it, seeing as literals seem to be one of its main use cases.

This seems like a good idea.

Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an infix operator, with s at i being equivalent to s[i:i+1]

And this is way beyond being intuitive.

-- Senthil

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