[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Sat Aug 14 15:02:59 CEST 2004 

>> ... 8-bit strings for b'xxx' (the current implementation is already
>> doing the right thing, meaning that it is 8-bit safe regardeless of
>> the source code encoding) ?

Martin> Not exactly - the current implementation is not safe with
Martin> respect to re-encoding source in a different encoding.

Can't such re-encoding tools (whatever they are) be intelligent about b"..."? If they are Python-aware that seems fairly trivial. If not, the job is more difficult.

Skip

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