> >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.
+1 from me, too. > I'm tempted to say it would be even better if there was a command line > option that could be used to force all binary opens to result in bytes, and > require all text opens to specify an encoding. I like this idea, too. Presumably plain "open(FILENAME, MODE)" would then result in a binary open (no encoding specified), which I've wanted for a long time (and which makes sense). But it is a change. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
