[Python-Dev] PEP 467: Minor API improvements for bytes & bytearray

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 17, 2014, at 09:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>> need for a special case for a single byte.  We already have a perfectly
>> good spelling:
>>     NUL = bytes([0])
>
>That is actually a very cumbersome spelling. Why should I first create a
>one-element list in order to create a one-byte bytes object?

I feel the same way every time I have to write `set(['foo'])`.

-Barry