Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread Larry Bugbee
This is my problem to solve... I work with a lot of [non-production] crypto where byte strings are a normal way of manipulating and storing keys and other artifacts. Under Python2 I have few/no Unicode issues. With Python3's default string type being Unicode, there are a lot of subtle wa

Re: [Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

2009-03-08 Thread Larry Bugbee
In light of this, what I'd love to see (but sadly can't really help with, and am not optimistic about happening) is for: - python to grow a decent, cross platform, package management system - the standard library to actually shrink to a point where only libraries that are not released elsewhere