Guido van Rossum wrote: > I don't think any of that is necessary. I would rather have the > following two in the language by default (see my response to Terry and > Raymond): > > bytes is an alias for str (not even a subclass) > b"" is an alias for ""
Ah, you like to keep it simple. The aliases are easily to implement. Give me twenty minutes to implement it and write some unit tests. > There is only one thing I'd like -3 to warn about regarding except > clauses: if the 'err' variable is used past the end of the except > clause. That is a true semantic change that 2to3 cannot easily fix or > flag. Consider this an example of how 2to3 and -3 should augment each > other. Several warnings have to be removed: ``, callable and maybe more. Christian _______________________________________________ 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