> And speaking of struni, when I realized that fixing _bsddb.c was not > going to be simple, I moved on to the next test (test_asynchat) and > came across a string with an 's' prefix. Just to make sure I got > everything straight, str8 produces a classic str instance (pure ASCII) > and a string with an 's' prefix is a str8 string. Other there any > other differences to be aware of when working on the branch?
There appears to be some disagreement on what the objective for that branch is. I would personally like to see str8 disappear, at least from Python API. IOW, if a str8 shows up somewhere, check whether it might be easy to replace it with a Unicode string. > And I assume the PyString API is going away, so when working on a > module one should just tear out use of the API and convert it over to > PyUnicode, correct? The API will stay. However, it should get used less-and-less. Whether converting it in Unicode depends on the use case. It might be that converting to binary is the right answer. > And do the same for "s" format characters in > Py_BuildValue and PyArg_ParseTuple? Again, depends. On ParseTuple, the default encoding is applied, which is supposed to always work, and always provides you with a char*. (it currently produces a str8 internally, but eventually should create a bytes object instead). For BuildValue, I would recommend that the s format code produces a Unicode object. That might be ambiguous, as some people might want to create bytes instead, but I recommend to designate a different code for creating bytes in BuildValue. > I just want to get an idea of the basic process going on to do the > conversion so that I don't have to figure out the hard way. I think many questions are still open, and should be discussed (or Guido would have to publish a policy in case he made up his mind already). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
