> Presumably in Python 3.0, opening a file in "text" mode will require an > encoding to be specified, and opening it in "binary" mode will cause it to > produce or consume byte arrays, not strings. This should apply to sockets > too, and really any I/O facility, including GUI frameworks, DBAPI objects, > os.listdir(), etc.
Great :) > Of course, to get there we really need to add a convenient bytes type, > perhaps by enhancing the current 'array' module. It'd be nice to have a > way to get this in 2.x versions so people can start fixing stuff to work > the right way. Could the "bytes" type be just the same as the current "str" type but without the implicit unicode conversion ? Or am I missing some desired functionality ? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
