Guido van Rossum wrote:
> However there's quite a bit of Python 2.x code around that manipulates
> *bytes* in the guise of 8-bit strings, and it uses tests like "if s[0]
> == 'x': ..." frequently. This can of course be rewritten using a
> slice, but not so easily when you're looping over bytes:
>
> for b in bb:
> if b == b'x': ...
Would it make anything easier if there were a character
literal?
for b in bb:
if b == c'x': ...
where c'x' is another way of writing ord(b'x').
An advantage of this is that it would make Py3k compatible
with Pyrex, which already has c'x' literals. :-)
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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+
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