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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 17 03:13:32 CEST 2004

However, byte strings used in source code are not "safe" if they are encoded in ISO-8859-1 under recoding: If the source code is converted to UTF-8 (including the encoding declaration), then the length of the strings changes, as do the byte values inside the string.

This suggests that byte string literals should be restricted to ASCII characters and \x escapes. Would that be safe enough?

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