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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:52:43 -0600
Subject: Re: Python 3.x and bytes
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> The big question, though, is would you do it this way:
>
> some_var = bytes(23).replace(b'\x00', b'a')
>
> or this way?
>
> some_var = bytes(b'a' * 23)

Actually, I would just do it this way:

some_var = b'a' * 23

That's already a bytes object.  Passing it into the constructor is redundant.