On Apr 18, 2016 3:19 PM, "Ethan Furman" <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 04/18/2016 12:54 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > >> Don't we *have* to always support bytes because other programs can >> create filenames containing bytes? > > > Yes, but not every function has to support bytes.
Because there's no function overloading in Python, we then must have explicit typing conditionals. I haven't the time to dig through and compare this with the other fine solutions presented; is there a reason that a proxy/facade PrimitiveType wouldn't solve for this? class TextThing: __init__(self, data): self.data = data self.type_ = type(data) __getattr__(self, key): return getattr(self.data, key) > > > -- > ~Ethan~ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/wes.turner%40gmail.com
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