[issue27949] Fix description in bytes literal doc

2016-09-03 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: No problem! Thanks for caring enough to open an issue and submit a patch, even if we don't use it. -- stage: -> resolved ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27949] Fix description in bytes literal doc

2016-09-03 Thread Xiang Zhang
Xiang Zhang added the comment: Ooh, sorry. It seems I misunderstand the meaning of the sentence. I understand the value as the output of repr, I mean b'\x01'. It means how it's created. Thanks for your reply and sorry for the noise. I close this then. -- resolution: -> not a bug statu

[issue27949] Fix description in bytes literal doc

2016-09-03 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: While they probably should be entered with escapes, there's no actual technical requirement for that. >From the command line, I can enter a control-A with control-V control-A (this >might be different depending on your environment, or if you use an editor). >T

[issue27949] Fix description in bytes literal doc

2016-09-03 Thread Xiang Zhang
New submission from Xiang Zhang: This sentence "bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater must be expressed with escapes" is wrong and not complete. The value needs to be escaped is >= 127 and < 32. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: lexical_bytes_literal.patc