[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?] (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 14 11:59:04 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I also wonder if having a b"..." literal would just add more confusion -- bytes are not characters, but b"..." makes it appear as if they are.

I'm inclined to agree. Bytes objects are more likely to be used for things which are not characters -- if they're characters, they would be better kept in strings or char arrays.

+1 on any eventual bytes literal looking completely different from a string literal.

Greg

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