[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 12 08:11:53 CEST 2004


Guido:

Anyway, if we really do have enough use cases for byte array literals, we might add them. I still think that would be confusing though, because byte arrays are most useful if they are mutable: and then we'd have mutable literals -- blechhhh!

Perhaps the constructor for a byte array could accept a string argument as long as it contained only ascii characters?

h.putrequest(bytes('GET'), selector)

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