On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> As quoted above, deprecation of the bytes version of the API sounds >> fine to me, but isn't this going to run into the usual objections from >> the "we need bytes for efficiency" crowd? It's OK with me<wink> to >> say "in this restricted area you must convert to Unicode", but is that >> going to fly with that constituency? > > I don't think this "we need bytes for efficiency" crowd actually exists.
I think that crowd does exist, but I've only ever seen them complain about URLs and other wire protocols (where turnaround time can matter a lot in terms of responsiveness of network applications for short requests, and encode()/decode() cycles can really add up). Filesystem access is dominated by I/O time, and there's often going to be some encoding or decoding going anyway (since the app and the filesystem have to get the data into a common format). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
