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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:45 PM 8/11/04 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>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!

Not if they work like list or dictionary "literals".  That is, if they're 
just short for 'array("B","literal here")'.