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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 17 08:30:05 CEST 2004

Greg Ewing wrote:

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

Yes, that should work fine (Guidos restriction to printable characters is also useful, as line endings are easily changed, too, when moving from one system to another).

Regards, Martin

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