On 11/23/2022 3:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 06:46, Barry Scott wrote:
I have written a lot of low level protocol and IOCTL calls that cannot think of
a time this would have helped me.
struct is often a mean to create blocks of binary data.
Long strings of binary data w
On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 06:46, Barry Scott wrote:
> I have written a lot of low level protocol and IOCTL calls that cannot think
> of a time this would have helped me.
> struct is often a mean to create blocks of binary data.
>
> Long strings of binary data would be a maintenance issue. What do al
> On 23 Nov 2022, at 12:32, Ronald Hoogenboom via Python-ideas
> wrote:
>
> Refer to PEP 3137 and PEP 358.
>
> Bytes objects are for conveying binary data (or encoded strings). Such binary
> data is customary specified in hex-dump or base64 format in source files.
> It would be nice to intr
Well - one can already do:
x = bytes.fromhex
x("01 23 45 67 89")
As for base64, I really, really, don't see a use case where allowing base64
native strings as
part oif the syntax could be useful - less so when decoding is one call
away.
Base64 was already created to allow one to convey arbitrary
