On 16 November 2013 20:45, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not using str type for str and str subtypes, and bytes type for bytes > and bytes-like object (bytearray, memoryview)? I don't think that we need an > ABC here.
We'd only need an ABC if info was added for supported input types. However, that's not necessary since "encodes_to" and "decodes_to" are enough to identify Unicode encodings: "encodes_to in (None, bytes) and decodes_to in (None, str)", so we don't need to track input type support at all if the main question we want to answer is "is this a Unicode codec or not?". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
