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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Aug 17 22:20:49 CEST 2004

On Aug 17, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Bill Janssen wrote:

Yes. My guess is that if you leave it out, you'll see var = u"foo".encode("ASCII") all over the place (assuming that encode() will produce a bytes type). If you also had var = bytes(u"foo") then I guess people would prefer that. People who want to save typing can do b = bytes and, given that the u prefix will be redundant, write var = b("foo")

How would you embed raw bytes if the string was unicode? Maybe there should be something roughly equivalent to this:

bytesvar = r"delimited packet\x00".decode("string_escape")

"string_escape" would probably be a bad name for it, of course.

-bob

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