Hi, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > > BTW, I suggest that Terry's usage of "string" (to mean "str or bytes" > in 3.x, "unicode or str" in 2.x) be adopted, and Guido's "stringish" > be given expanded meaning, including buffer objects.
"string" means "str", "bytes" means "bytes", "bytes-like object" means "any object that supports the buffer protocol" [0] (including bytes). "string and bytes-like object" includes all of them. I don't think we need to introduce new terms. Best Regards, Ezio Melotti [0]: http://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object > Then we can say > informally that in searching and matching a target is a stringish, the > pattern is a stringish (?) or compiled re, but the group method > returns a string. > > Steve _______________________________________________ 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
