On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:46 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (Since bytes may be used for file names I think they should get this new > capability too.) > > I don’t really care one way or another, but is it really still the case > that bytes need to be used for filenames? For uses other than just passing > them around? > Yes, Linux in particular does not guarantee that file names are using any particular encoding (let alone a consistent encoding for different files). The only two bytes that are special are '\0' and '/'. > Sigh. > Indeed, especially since macOS *does* guarantee that filenames are Unicode (even using a specific normalization) and Windows represents filenames internally as UTF-16, IIRC. > In any case, while it’s fine to consider the bytes issue in choosing a > name, I hope it doesn’t derail the whole idea. > I didn't like the name stripstr anyway. :-) > -CHB > >> > > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 16:10 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:33:49PM -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> >>> > I think we should have a `stripstr()` as an alias for strip, and a new >>> > `stripchr()`. >>> >>> Shouldn't they be the other way around? >>> >>> `strip` removes chars from a set of chars; the proposed method will >>> remove a prefix/suffix. >>> >>> >>> > And I'm perfectly okay with bytes() not having those methods. ;-) >>> >>> If heavy users of bytes want these methods, they can request them >>> separately. There's no backwards compatibility requirement for new >>> string methods to be automatically added to bytes. >>> >>> I guess the question now is do we need a PEP? >>> >> -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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