Martijn,
Sorry, I was mixing several things up, yesterday.
Maybe that was related to the anesthesia of my gingivitis treatment.
I have read https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/issues/27
again - all clear now, not objecting at all!
cheers - chris
On 08.01.14 16:35, Martijn Faassen wrote:
On 01/08/2014 04:18 PM, Christian Tismer wrote:
If I understand it correctly, a consequent support for str/bytes would
need to make str and bytes explicitly incompatible.
But that is a huuuge change, and too much work.
It would mean to implement everything that python3 changed there.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.
the future module already did the work in bringing a Python 3
compatible str and bytes into Python, as an import from a
'future.builtins' module. There are interactions with Python 2 str and
unicode, and those are interesting and should be thought through
carefully (see the issue I pointed out for a start. I don't think
we're at the end yet).
I think we should not artificially enforce str/bytes incompatibility.
Code can be checked by running it on a python 3 interpreter, that should
be good enough.
That won't help those who want to *incrementally* upgrade their large
codebases to Python 3. You *can't* run such codebases on Python 3,
until you port every last module. That's why I'm looking at stuff like
'future' which tries to make such an incremental path possible for the
most difficult change of Python 3: the str/bytes story.
So I'm not proposing that the existing str/unicode/bytes in Stackless
2.8 change in any way, just that you can optionally import a new
Python 3 style str/bytes on a per module basis. Is this what you
objected against?
Regards,
Martijn
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