Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Very nice, thanks. If I was to make a blasphemous suggestion I would > > even target it for Python 3.4. (No, seriously, this is a big issue > > - see the recent discussion by Armin - and the big names involved show > > that it is a major holdup of 3.x uptake.) It would of course depend > > a lot on how much code from unicode formatting can be retained or > > adapted as opposed to a rewrite from scratch. > > From what I've seen of the unicode formatting code, a lot would have to > be rewritten or refactored. It is a non-trivial task, definitely > inappropriate for 3.4.
I do not know the stringlib well enough, so I have a silly question: Would it be possible to re-use the 2.x stringlib just for the bytes type, name it byteslib and disable features as appropriate? Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
