2009/11/4 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> I also would really like to see a real port of the bytes class to 2.6, >> but I have a vague memory that there was some reason that wouldn't >> work. > > Not so much that it wouldn't work, but that the interfaces to support > using it effectively really aren't there - lots of areas in the standard > library needed to be tweaked to cope with bytes objects in 3.x.
Ah, right, that was the problem, the standard library. I knew I heard a good reason against it. > Generally speaking, the "bytes = str" trick represents a reasonable > compromise as the APIs that you would pass a bytes object to in 3.x > expect an 8-bit str instance in 2.x. Yeah, the problem being that bytes and str has quite different API's. Ah well. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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
