On 8/8/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Jewett schrieb:
> > I'm not sure why you would need a literal for the mutable version.
> > How often do you create a new buffer with initial values? (Note: not
> > pointing to existing memory; creating a new one.)
> The same reason that you might create empty lists or dicts: to fill them.
Let me rephrase that -- how often do you create new non-empty buffers?
The equivalent of a empty list or dict is buffer(). If you really
want to save keystrokes, call it buf(). The question is whether we
really need to abbreviate
>>> mybuf = buffer("abcde")
as
>>> mybuf = b"abcde"
I would say leave literal syntax for the immutable type.
(And other than this nit, I also lend my support to Talin's suggestion.)
-jJ
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