-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gregory P. Smith wrote: > Anyone have an opinion on http://bugs.python.org/issue3492 in regards > to it being a release blocker? > > The gist of it: zlib returns bytearrays where other modules return > bytes. zipimport, because it uses zlib, required bytearrays instead > of bytes as input. A few other modules also appear to return > bytearrays when they're likely better off returning bytes for > consistency.
I strongly agree that zlib *SHOULD* return bytes. If zimport requires a bytearray (why?), it can do the conversion itself. > Whats the big deal if this is not fixed before release? Users are > likely to get frustrated at inputs not being hashable without explicit > (data copy) conversion to an immutable type. And any code that gets > written depending on these returning bytearrays instead of bytes would > need fixing if we waited until 3.1 to fix it. +1. Release Blocker. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSMFZeZlgi5GaxT1NAQKPhgQAgeEIZyLU6jhMYq3ALKv5/Ashpa6tGWQV 8SligFMYOyAY7THD8pxMZ3yWtghRtzIRvaDkJCRhNfJp4sGHO4gLj/FCbxe5cuLv 41pYndNQ+VXZMCVkJ5OsdVvww59vvOHKvqwSOWd6BL3JUWjKdWIe/yyAKM2+tKL9 owJPMlIE+l0= =j0iu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
