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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Aug 12 17:00:15 CEST 2004


At 10:45 PM 8/11/04 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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!

Not if they work like list or dictionary "literals". That is, if they're just short for 'array("B","literal here")'.



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