Guido van Rossum wrote: > > The point is that a bytes and a str instance are never considered equal... > > Sorry. I understand now. My brain must have been on a holiday earlier. :) Just pushed an updated patch to the bug tracker. >> str8() == str() -> False >> str8() != str() -> True >> >> Correct? >> > > Well, in this case you actually have to compare the individual bytes. > But yes. ;-) > I'm confused: if I'm making == and != between PyString return False instead of converting, at what point would I need to be comparing bytes?
The fix I have ready for this merely wipes out the conversion from PyString to PyUnicode in PyUnicode_Compare and the existing code takes care of the rest. Is this all that's required, or have I misinterpreted this one too? :) Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ 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
