On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:07:49PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "\x80".encode('latin-1')
>
> But in 2.5 we can't change that to return a bytes object without
> creating HUGE incompatibilities.
People could spell it bytes(s.encode('latin-1')) in order to make it
work in 2.X. That spelling would provide a way of ensuring the type
of the return value.
> You missed the part where I said that introducing the bytes type
> *without* a literal seems to be a good first step. A new type, even
> built-in, is much less drastic than a new literal (which requires
> lexer and parser support in addition to everything else).
Are you concerned about the implementation effort? If so, I don't
think that's justified since adding a new string prefix should be
pretty straightforward (relative to rest of the effort involved).
Are you comfortable with the proposed syntax?
Neil
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