On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > PyString -> PyBytes ... > > > > > > -1. This will make merging code from 2.6 harder, and causes more work > > > for porting C extensions. > > > There was a thread about this a few weeks ago: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077339.html > > We can still do the renaming, but alias PyString to PyBytes. > > That's a rather long thread. Was any conclusion reached? I'm not sure > how introducing a set of aliases will help merging 2.6 code to 3.0. > Can you or Christian describe the proposed approach in more detail? As far as I can see, no objections were raised in that thread. Christian explained the probable approach: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077362.html > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: > http://www.python.org/~guido/<http://www.python.org/%7Eguido/> > ) >
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