On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Seems to make sense. Do you see many places where it would make >> existing code shorter?
> If it could be used to get the bytes from a file object, then > marshal.c could use it; the code calls the "read" method on file > objects and then has to check if it got a bytearray or bytes instance > in order to get the raw string to do its work. Otherwise the > conversion to bytes would help by eliminating the separate bytearray > check. Hm, that sounds like a novelty -- I don't think the corresponding PyString or PyUnicode (or PyBytesArray) functions do anything remotely that clever... -- --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/archive%40mail-archive.com
