On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > > OTOH, I suspect the Python 3 stdlib is still broken if it requires native > strings in various places (and prohibits the use of bytes).
yes, python3 stdlib should support 'str'(the old unicode), 'buffer' and 'bytes' for web using stuff. Buffer is important because it's a type also used for sockets(along with bytes) and it allows less memory allocation (because you can reuse buffers). cheers, _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com