Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Are you planning to backport bytearrays? I thought we had clearly decided to > *not* backport any of the text/bytes model so that the > Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure.
The idea raised when I was working on a backport of the io module. The io module requires a mutable byte type. Guido answered a question in my issue http://bugs.python.org/issue1919 Backporting bytearray should be relatively clean since it's a brand new type right? My initial question was: I'm not sure how to proceed with the missing bytearray type: * backport bytearray and the new buffer interface from 3.0 * write a replacement for 2.6 * replace the bytearray code with new code bytearray is a new type that has no equivalent in Python 2.6. Python 3.0's byte type is basically a modified string type. I don't see a problem with bytearray, do you? 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
