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

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Jun 14 01:40:29 CEST 2011

At 03:11 PM 6/13/2011 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote: > Agreed, but: > > EOH, CHAR, DATE, FLOAT, INT, LOGICAL, MEMO, NUMBER = b'\rCDFILMN' > > is a shorter way to write the same thing. > > Going two per line makes it easier to mentally map the characters: > > EOH, CHAR = b'\rC' > DATE, FLOAT = b'DF' > INT, LOGICAL = b'IL' > MEMO, NUMBER = b'MN'

Wow. I didn't realize that could be done. That very nearly makes up for not being able to do it one char at a time.

You can still do it one at a time:

CHAR, = b'C' INT, = b'I' ...

etc. I just tried it with Python 3.1 and it works there.

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