[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Glenn Linderman]

On 5/17/2011 10:39 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Personally I think that the default literal syntax for
> bytes, and also the form produced by repr(), should have
> been something more neutral, such as hex, with the ascii
> form available for use when it makes sense.

> Much nicer would be
>
>    some_var = x'deadbeef'
>
> As for
>
>> --> some_other_var[3] == b'd'
>
> there ought to be a literal for specifying an integer
> using an ascii character, so you could say something like
>
>   if some_other_var[3] == c'd':
>
> which would be equivalent to
>
>   if some_other_var[3] == ord(b'd')
>
> but without the overhead of computing the value each time
> at run time.

+1

Seems this could be added compatibly?
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