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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Aug 17 16:25:52 CEST 2004

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 03:24, Tony Meyer wrote:

I don't know about shtoom, but Mike Fletcher's resourcepackage does. (It packages up non-*.py files as *.py files). I believe that the main point of resourcepackage is for ease of distribution (but could be wrong), so perhaps better distribution tools make this unnecessary. It is an example use-case, though.

I'd think that in most cases, huge globs of binary byte data would better live in non-py data files. I personally don't see much of a use case for byte literals (although, +1 on a bytes type). Byte literals just aren't going to be commonly written by people I think, and any programmatic generation of byte data should just as easily live outside py files.

-Barry

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