On Fri, May 04, 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > [-python-dev] > > On 5/4/07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 04 May 2007, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> >>> I also suggest making all bytes literals immutable to avoid running >>> into any issues like the above. >> >> +1 from me. > > Rather than adding immutability to bytes objects (which has big > implementation and type checking implications), consider using > buffer(b"123") as an immutable bytes literal. You can freely > concatenate and compare buffer objects with bytes objects.
I'm with MAL and Fred on making literals immutable -- that's safe and lots of newbies will need to use byte literals early in their Python experience if they pick up Python to operate on network data. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
