Marc-Andre; So, to clarify: You are saying that it is acceptable for a Python 3.0 implementation to raise an error when .Binary() receives a unicode string. It should expect a b'xxx binary string here xxx' type. Is that correct? -- Vernon
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:01 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > On 2009-02-02 17:34, Vernon Cole wrote: > > Hello, everyone: > > > > Work has gone well in porting adodbapi to work in Python 3.0. The result > > should be posted in a beta version in pywin32 v.213 real soon now. > > I have patched the standards compliance test as discussed earlier in this > > forum. > > There is one last error I am getting, but I believe that should be left > > intact, as a protection when porting to 3.0. > > > > The PEP says: > >> Binary(string) > >> > >> This function constructs an object capable of holding a > >> binary (long) string value. > > > > Given that Python 3.0 no longer uses a string for this purpose, the > routine > > should really accept an object of data type "byte". > > That's not entirely correct: the return type of Binary() is not defined > by the spec, only the fact that a binary string must be acceptable as > input type. In Python 2, this is str(), in Python 3, bytes(). > > The output type of Binary() is module specific, since different modules > may need different types. > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 02 2009) > >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: > > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 > http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >
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