On 2/21/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the spelling of a bytes string with an ASCII character value is all > you are complaining about, you should have said so right away.
That is my main objection. A literal form does clear it up, though I'm not sure "b" is the right prefix. (I keep wanting to read "binary" or "boolean", rather than "ASCII") To be honest, it would probably be enough if there were an ascii builtin, or if the example uses of the bytes constructor showed bytes(text) # no encoding just copying the low-order byte, and raising exceptions if any high-order bytes were non-zero. -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com