I'm working on the renaming of str8 -> bytes and bytes -> buffer.
PyBytes (old bytes, new buffer) can take a string together with an
encoding and an optional error argument:
>>> bytes(source="abc", encoding="ascii", errors="replace")
b'abc'
>>> str(b"abc", encoding="ascii")
'abc'
IMO this should work
>>> str8("abc", encoding="ascii")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
And this should break with a type error
>>> str8("abc")
b'abc'
PyString' constructor doesn't take strings (PyUnicode). I like to add
the support for strings to it. It makes the API of str, bytes and buffer
consistent and fixes a *lot* of broken code and tests.
Are you confused by the name changes? I'm sometimes confused so I made a
table:
c name | old | new | repr
-------------------------------------------
PyUnicode | str | - | ''
PyString | str8 | bytes | b''
PyBytes | bytes | buffer | buffer(b'')
Christian
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