Bengt Richter wrote: > If str becomes unicode for PY 3000, and we then have bytes as out > coding-agnostic > byte data, then I think bytes should have the str translation method, with a > tweak > that I would hope could also be done to str now. > > BTW, str.translate will presumably become unicode.translate, so > perhaps unicode.translate should grow a compatible deletechars parameter.
I'd much rather like to see .translate() method deprecated. Writing a code for the task is much more effective - the builtin charmap codec will do all the mapping for you, if you have a need to go from bytes to Unicode and vice- versa. We could also have a bytemap codec for doing bytes to bytes conversions. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 17 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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
