I am wrong! Please ignore my previous message. Massimo
On Oct 26, 8:18 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 10:57 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In Python 2.x you can do s.find(..), s.replace(..), etc. where s is a > > byte string. This API does not exist anymore in in Python 3.x and you > > can only do string manipulation if s a unicode string. This is very > > bad because all network protocols use bytes not unicode. The solution > > bytes>unicode>manipulate>unicode>bytes does not work because not all > > ascii data can be represented in unicode > > That is not true. > > If you use ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) it preserves the bytes as is and it > can be reversed without loss of data. > > Graham > > > (and at least not without a > > major performance penalty). > > > Python 3.x is making more difficult to program low level network > > protocols and it moves the developer away from the OS representation > > of data. > > > Massimo > > > On Oct 26, 6:46 pm, Alan Harris-Reid <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Massimo - thanks for the reply. Looks like 2.6 is the way to go until > > > the developers catch-up with Python3 (that is if they think if it's > > > worth doing in the first place). > > > > Regards, > > > Alan > > > > On 26 Oct, 02:36, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This issues comes up once every week. > > > > > Web2py promises backward compatibility. We never broke and it we never > > > > will. Python 3.x is not compatible with 2.4 and 2.5 because of > > > > differences in the syntax. This means web2py will not move. This does > > > > not exclude (and it actually is likely) that a web2py successor (with > > > > a different name to avoid confusion) will be based on 3.x > > > > > Right now very few third party libraries work well with 3.x compared > > > > to 2.x, so I would not use for any production quality job. In > > > > particular the database drivers we need do not work. > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On Oct 25, 6:40 pm, aharrisreid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I am very much new to Python, and one of my first projects is a simple > > > > > data-based website. However, looking to the future, I am > > > > > starting with Python 3.1 (I can hear many of you shouting "don't - > > > > > start with 2.6"), so I need to know - is web2py compatible with 3.1 > > > > > yet. If not, are plans in the pipeline? > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > Alan > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
