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

[Guido van Rossum]

> Guido:
> > Anyway, if we really do have enough use cases for byte array
> > literals, we might add them.  I still think that would be confusing
> > though, because byte arrays are most useful if they are mutable: and
> > then we'd have mutable literals -- blechhhh!

Greg:
> 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)

Yeah, but that's what Martin called depending on the default encoding.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)