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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 12 16:20:39 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!

Greg:

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)

Yeah, but that's what Martin called depending on the default encoding.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list