Because in IronPython str is just an alias for Unicode. I think it would be extremely broken for us to alias all 3 to unicode especially when bytes clearly has a different meaning.
-----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:34 AM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] Minor bug in conversion of str to bytes? Dino Viehland wrote: > Unfortunately there's probably going to continue to be a bunch of corner > cases related to bytes/str/unicode until we move to 3.0. But hopefully > we can come up w/ reasonable workarounds for most of them. > > In this case it seems like we should define __str__ on bytes and make > it return a Unicode string w/o the b''. We can keep repr in there so > that an explicit repr still gives you the b'' representation... > > Ahh, I can't wait until Ipy 3.0! > In Python 2.6 the bytes type is just an alias for str I believe, am I incorrect? If I am correct why is IronPython 2.6 taking a different approach? Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com > [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Robert Smallshire > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:29 AM > To: 'Discussion of IronPython' > Subject: [IronPython] Minor bug in conversion of str to bytes? > > Hello, > > Lets create a bytes instance from a str, and convert it back to a str. > > >>>> a = bytes(ord(c) for c in "Hello World") >>>> a >>>> > b'Hello World' > >>>> str(a) >>>> > "b'Hello World'" > > As you can see, the leading b and the quotes become part of the string, > which is unexpected. I guess the conversion is using __repr__ where it > should use __str__. > > Cheers, > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com