On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 03:49 PM 6/24/2006 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >Cases values must be ints, strings, or tuples of ints or strings. > > -1. There is no reason to restrict the types in this fashion. Even if you > were trying to ensure marshallability, you could still include unicode and > longs.
When he said "ints" i assumed that included longs. The distinction is so nearly gone by now (from the Python programmer's point of view). I don't see any particular problem with allowing all basestrings rather than just 8-bit strings. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ 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
