> # constants
>
> EOH = b'\r'[0]
> CHAR = b'C'[0]
> DATE = b'D'[0]
> FLOAT = b'F'[0]
> INT = b'I'[0]
> LOGICAL = b'L'[0]
> MEMO = b'M'[0]
> NUMBER = b'N'[0]
>
> This is not beautiful code.
In this case, I think the intent would be better captured with
def ASCII(c):
return c.encode('ascii')
EOH = ASCII('\r') # 0D
CHAR = ASCII('C') # 43
DATE = ASCII('D') # 44
FLOAT = ASCII('F') # 46
INT = ASCII('I') # 49
LOGICAL = ASCII('L') # 4C
MEMO = ASCII('M') # 4D
NUMBER = ASCII('N') # 4E
This expresses the intent that a) these are really byte values,
not characters, and b) the specific choice of byte values was motivated
by ASCII.
Regards,
Martin
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