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Wed Feb 15 06:20:16 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060981.html

On 2/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Not entirely, since I don't know what b"abc<euro>def" would mean
> (where <euro> is a Unicode Euro character typed in whatever source
> encoding was used).

SyntaxError I would hope.  Ascii and hex escapes only please. :)

Although I'm not arguing for or against byte literals.  They do make
for a much terser form, but they're not strictly necessary.

--
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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