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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Aug 18 00:01:12 CEST 2004

>> How would you embed raw bytes if the string was unicode? > > The most direct notation would be > > bytes("delimited packet\x00") > > However, people might not understand what is happening, and > Guido doesn't like it if the bytes are >127.

I guess that was a bad example, what if the delimiter was \xff? I know that map(ord, u'delimited packet\xff') would get correct results.. but I don't think I like that either.

Maybe the constructor could be bytes([, ])?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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