I'll take it. I assume it's just a matter of removing the mutating methods and making the tests pass? I saw but didn't read a couple threads about the buffer API... how much has to change there?
On 9/18/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No takers? What about those repeated +42 voters? Does anyone want > immutable bytes enough to do a teensy bit of work? > > --Guido > > On 9/17/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may have passed in a thread where no-one was listening, so I'm > > repeating it here. > > > > I'm considering the following option: bytes would always be immutable, > > and for the few places (mostly in io.py) where a mutable bytes buffer > > would be handy, we use the array module. Then it would also make sense > > to make b[0] return a bytes array of length 1 instead of a small int > > -- bytes would be more similar to str in 2.x, albeit completely > > incompatible with str in terms of mixed operations. > > > > It would help if someone explored creating a patch to implement this, > > just to see the minimum amount of code that would need to change > > compared to 3.0a1. (The challenge includes making all the tests pass > > again.) > > > > -- > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > 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/jyasskin%40gmail.com > -- Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/ "Religion is an improper response to the Divine." — "Skinny Legs and All", by Tom Robbins _______________________________________________ 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
