On 2/10/06, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PEP 349 - str() may return unicode. Where is this? > > Does that mean you didn't find and read the PEP or was it written so > badly that it answered none of your questions? The PEP is on > python.org with all the rest. I set the status to "Deferred" > because it seemed that no one was interested in the change.
Sorry -- it was an awkward way to ask "what's the status"? You've answered that. > > I'm not at all sure the PEP is ready. it would probably be a lot > > of work to make this work everywhere in the C code, not to mention > > the stdlib .py code. Perhaps this should be targeted for 2.6 > > instead? The consequences seem potentially huge. > > The backwards compatibility problems *seem* to be relatively minor. > I only found one instance of breakage in the standard library. Note > that my patch does not change PyObject_Str(); that would break > massive amounts of code. Instead, I introduce a new function: > PyString_New(). I'm not crazy about the name but I couldn't think > of anything better. So let's think about this more post 2.5. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
