On 5/5/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> In general, I don't think it's a good idea to have literals
> >> turn into mutable objects, since literals are normally perceived
> >> as being constant.
> >
> > Does that mean you want list literals to be immutable too?
> >
> > lst = ['a', 'b', 'c']
> > lst.append('d') # raises an error?
>
> That's not a literal, it's a display. The difference is that
> a literal denotes the same object every time it is executed.
> A display creates a new object every time it is executed.
> (another difference is that a display is a constructed thing
> which may contain runtime-computed components, unlike a
> literal).
>
> So if bytes are mutable and also have source-level
> representation, they should be displays, not literals.
So is having mutable bytes just a matter of calling them "byte
displays" instead of "byte literals" or does that also require
changing something in the back end?
STeVe
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