[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Perhaps the constructor for a byte array could accept a string
> argument as long as it contained only ascii characters?
> 
>    h.putrequest(bytes('GET'), selector)

That is probably most reasonable. It would be harmless to extend it
to Latin-1, which would allow to represent all byte values in a
string literal - even using the appropriate \x escapes.

Regards,
Martin