On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
On 6/20/2010 4:10 PM, Jesse Noller wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby<p...@telecommunity.com>
wrote:
While reading over this thread, I'm wondering whether at least my
(WSGI-related) problems in this area would be solved by the
availability of
a type (say "bstr") that was simply a wrapper providing string-
like behavior
over an underlying bytes, byte array, or memoryview, that would
produce
objects of compatible type when combined with strings (by encoding
them to
match).
I hate to reply with a simple +1 - but I've heard this pain and
proposal from a frightening number of people, something which allowed
you to use bytes with some of the sting methods would go a really
long
way to solving a lot of peoples python 3 pain. I don't relish the
idea
that once people start moving over, there might be a billion
implementations of "things like this".
Given that the 3.x bytes and bytearray classes do retain text
methods like .capitalize(), which are meaningless for arbitrary
binary data, it is not clear to me what you are asking for or what
problem a new class would solve. I am curious though.
Ask the web-sig and wsgi folks for starters. I know they've
experienced non-zero pain.
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