On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Folks, please focus on what Python 3000 should do. > > I'm thinking about making all character strings Unicode (possibly with > different internal representations a la NSString in Apple's Objective > C) and introduce a separate mutable bytes array data type. But I could > use some validation or feedback on this idea from actual > practitioners. > > I don't want to see proposals to mess with the str/unicode semantics > in Python 2.x. Let' leave the Python 2.x str/unicode semantics alone > until Python 3000 -- we don't need mutliple transitions. (Although we > could add the mutable bytes array type sooner.)
+1, this is precisely what I'd like to see. -bob _______________________________________________ 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
