On 31 Jul, 2013, at 10:09, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:15:50 +0200, > Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> a écrit : >> >> Because of this I'd like to introduce a new API in plistlib that >> fixes both problems. In particular: >> >> * Add 'load', 'loads', 'dump' and 'dumps', those use "bytes" for >> binary data by default >> >> * Keep and deprecate "readPlist", "writePlist" and the their string >> equivalents, those still use Data objects (and call the new API to do >> the actual work). >> >> I'd like some feedback on this change. On the one hand the new APIs >> make it possible to clean up the API of plistlib, on the other hand >> this is a big API change. > > +1 on the principle. I can't say more, not being a Mac user. plistlib is the portable part of the stdlib :-) But anyway, I've got enough positive feedback that I'll introduce the new API, although it probably won't make the first alpha release. Ronald _______________________________________________ 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
