On 11/1/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently (in 3.0), "".join(<seq>) automatically applies str() to the > items of <seq>, *except* if the item is a bytes instance -- then it > raises a TypeError. Is that proper behavior? The alternative is to > uniformly apply str(), which for bytes returns a string of the form > "b'...'" or "buffer(b'...')" (depending on whether the bytes are > immutable or not). Given that we killed the exception for "" == b"" > earlier, I'm tempted to remove the exception. Any opinions to the > contrary?
I say all or nothing; uniformly apply str and duck typing or only accept str objects. For transition reasons the latter would probably work out nicer than the former. But for purity I prefer applying str(). -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
