On Dec 5, 2007 10:04 AM, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 9:19 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The asyncore and asynchat modules are in a difficult position when it > > comes to Python 3000. None of the core developers use it or > > particularly care about it (AFAIK), and the API has problems because > > it wasn't written to deal with bytes vs. unicode. E.g. in > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1067, Thomas suggests that these modules > > need to be rewritten to use bytes internally and have separate APIs to > > handle (unicode) text as desired, similar to the way file I/O was > > redesigned. Another alternative would be to make these modules deal > > strictly in bytes, but that would probably vastly reduce their > > usefulness (though I don't know -- as I said, I don't use them). > > I can look into it later this month, but for the short term, I'm a > little squeezed for time (work, finishing school, etc.).
That's fine; I see this as part of the library reorg effort, which is still in the starting blocks. > I am a bit > curious, however, I could have sworn that bytes were to become, > essentially, the 2.x str type (without some methods). If that is the > case, no changes should really be necessary, except for a few small > changes to asynchat with regards to line terminators. Well, yes, that would be the easiest thing (and may be right for asyncore), but most of the code that *uses* asynchat (that I've seen anyway) passes it text strings, not byte strings. And in 3.0, all text is unicode, and you *must* specify an encoding *somewhere* in order to convert it to bytes correctly -- otherwise it will blow up immediately with a TypeError. > Then again, I haven't really been keeping up in the p3k/pydev lists > for the last 6-8 months, and only the subject line of this posting > caught my eye (because I use asyncore/asynchat, and support users of > asyncore/asynchat that contact me directly). Good to know there are users. Perhaps you could make them aware of this request. -- --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
