On lundi 23 avril 2018 11:54:25 CEST Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hi Even
>
> The testsuite has numerous instances like this:
>
> if version_info >= (3, 0, 0):
> for i in range(100000):
> exec("f.write(b'\\xa0\\x86\\x01\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00')")
> else:
> for i in range(100000):
> f.write('\xa0\x86\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')
>
> Why is it necessary on Python 3 to use exec() in this way? It seems
> very complicated and counterintuitive.
Probably a remain of an era where we tried to be compatible of python 2.5. I
see python >=
2.6 supports b'foo' so we could probably only use the b'' syntax whereever
python3 needs it
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