Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> The practical issue is how you refer to ASCII bytes. What I've resorted
> to is:
>
> if nxt == b":"[0]:
> ...
You seem to have the compiler's blessing:
>>> def f(c):
... return c == b":"[0]
...
>>> import dis
>>> dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (c)
3 LOAD_CONST 3 (58)
6 COMPARE_OP 2 (==)
9 RETURN_VALUE
> What's your favorite way of expressing character constants?
Before I've seen your way I would have written
COLON = ord(":")
...
if nxt == COLON:
...
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