[Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

Mon Jun 13 03:52:14 CEST 2011

Ethan Furman writes:
 > Using this method, my code now looks like:
 > 
 > # constants
[...]
 > This is not beautiful code.
Put mascara on a pig, and you have a pig with mascara on, not Bette
Davis. I don't necessarily think you're doing anybody a service by
making the hack of using ASCII bytes as mnemonics more beautiful. I
think Martin's version is as beautiful as this code should get.