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Just switching from Python2 to Python3 and the new string system is a real pain (or rather I’m not understanding its true benefit).
Is there any way to make it default to the old style bytes system without having to put a b before every string. I send a lot of commands via sockets and the code looks just ugly – i.e.
conn.sendall(b'k\n')
I tend to use this more than I worry about unicode
No, there isn’t. And from what I gather you don’t think it is a pain, and you do understand the benefit, you just think the b” is ugly, which doesn’t seem to be a very good reason to me.
Separating binary and text data is a great simplification in almost all cases. The need to prefix binary data with a b is a small price to pay for that.