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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Aug 12 16:12:27 CEST 2004 

Martin> Java also supports byte arrays in the source, although they are
Martin> difficult to type:

Martin>     byte[] request = {'G', 'E', 'T'};

Seems to me that b"GET" would be more Pythonic given existing Python string literals.

Martin> As for reading from streams: Java has multiple reader APIs; some
Martin> return byte strings, some character strings.

I think Guido's proposed 'B' might make sense here. OTOH, today's 'b' might work as well, though a switch of that magnitude could probably not be made until 3.0 if bytes objects are not synonyms for strings.

Skip

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