[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Aug 17 23:18:38 CEST 2004


On Aug 17, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> 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.

-bob


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