Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Proposals to address this include:
- introduce a "character" literal to allow c'a' as an alternative to ord('a')
-1; the result is not a *character* but an integer. I'm personally
favoring using b'a'[0] and possibly hiding this in a constant
definition.
Using this method, my code now looks like:
# constants
EOH = b'\r'[0]
CHAR = b'C'[0]
DATE = b'D'[0]
FLOAT = b'F'[0]
INT = b'I'[0]
LOGICAL = b'L'[0]
MEMO = b'M'[0]
NUMBER = b'N'[0]
This is not beautiful code.
~Ethan~
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