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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> > 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.

I don't see anything wrong with that. It would be a fixed default,
defined by the language, not something site-dependent that could shift
under you.

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