[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jun 13 03:52:14 CEST 2011

Ethan Furman writes:

Using this method, my code now looks like:

constants

[...]

This is not beautiful code.

Put mascara on a pig, and you have a pig with mascara on, not Bette Davis. I don't necessarily think you're doing anybody a service by making the hack of using ASCII bytes as mnemonics more beautiful. I think Martin's version is as beautiful as this code should get.

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