[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

[Eric Smith]

On 5/18/2011 6:32 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Eric Smith wrote:
> 
>> And of course it's too late to make any change to this.
> 
> It's too late to change the meaning of b'...', but is it
> really too late to introduce an x'...' literal and change
> the repr() to produce it?

My "this" was the different types returned by b[i] and b[i:i+1].

Eric.