On 2009-02-02 23:59, Vernon Cole wrote: > 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?
Again, that's up to the constructor. It could e.g. accept Unicode if it's all ASCII or contains a hex/base64 representation of the binary data. However, it certainly makes sense to just alias Binary to the bytes type constructor for simplicity. > -- > 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/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 03 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/ _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
