On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2009/11/8 <s...@pobox.com>: >> >> SpamBayes has several files which contain raw 8-bit data embedded in >> string literals. Before I do manual work to make them parseable by 2to3 >> I thought I would ask if there was either a fixer available which I'm >> not getting by default or if there is an opportunity to add a new fixer >> to 2to3. >> >> The usage is pretty straightforward. For example, a string literal >> might contain the bytes for a GIF image: >> >> data = "GIF89a(..." >> >> Is there a potentially automated path from where the code is today to >> something Python 3 (and 2to3) will like? > > Not to my knowledge. I would prefer to not add a fixer for this > directly to 2to3 because it is not correct for most programs. However, > I think 2to3 should grow some sort of plugin system, so custom fixers > can easily be written and used.
But if you're happy with only supporting 2.6, you can use b"..." and the right thing will happen. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
