[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python

[Anthony Baxter]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I see that as a huge case for a bytes type, which I've proposed
> myself; but what's the use case for bytes literals, assuming you can
> write bytes("foo")?  Does b"foo" really make much of a difference?  Is
> it so hard to have to write bytes([0x66, 0x6f, 0x6f]) instead of
> b"\x66\x6f\x6f"?

It's a pretty marginal case for it. I just played with it a bit, and
I think after playing with it, I actually prefer the non b'' case.

A big +1 for a bytes() type, though. I'm not sure on the details,
but it'd be nice if it was possible to pass a bytes() object to,
for instance, write() directly.