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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Aug 18 19:31:28 CEST 2004

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

If you write your string literal using just ASCII characters and escapes, I don't see much of a problem with different source code encodings.

That is correct. I personally have no problem if byte fields and unicode strings are connected through some encoding; I personally think making it fixed at Latin-1 might be best.

I was merely responding to Skip's question why an encoding comes into play at all, as byte fields inherently have no encoding, and might not even represent character data. I was responding that this is mostly true, except for source code.

Regards, Martin

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