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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Wed May 18 07:46:34 CEST 2011

On 5/17/2011 10:39 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Personally I think that the default literal syntax for bytes, and also the form produced by repr(), should have been something more neutral, such as hex, with the ascii form available for use when it makes sense.

Much nicer would be

somevar = x'deadbeef' As for

--> someothervar[3] == b'd' there ought to be a literal for specifying an integer using an ascii character, so you could say something like if someothervar[3] == c'd': which would be equivalent to if someothervar[3] == ord(b'd') but without the overhead of computing the value each time at run time.

+1

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