On 18.05.2011 07:39, Greg Ewing wrote: > Ethan Furman wrote: > >> On the one hand we have the 'bytes are ascii data' type interface, and >> on the other we have the 'bytes are a list of integers between 0 - 256' >> interface. > > I think the weird part is that there exists a literal for > writing a byte array as an ascii string, and furthermore > that it's the *only* kind of literal available for bytes. > > 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. Currently if > you want to write a bytes literal in hex, you have to > say something like > > some_var = b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef' > > which is ugly and unreadable. Much nicer would be > > some_var = x'deadbeef'
We do have bytes.fromhex('deadbeef') Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com