[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ethan Furman writes:

 > Using this method, my code now looks like:
 > 
 > # constants

[...]

 > This is not beautiful code.

Put mascara on a pig, and you have a pig with mascara on, not Bette
Davis.  I don't necessarily think you're doing anybody a service by
making the hack of using ASCII bytes as mnemonics more beautiful.  I
think Martin's version is as beautiful as this code should get.