Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:21:37 -0700, Chris Barker kirjoitti: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Julian Taylor > <jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> - add ascii/latin1 dtype to support a compact python3 string array, >> deprecate 's' dtype which has different meaning in python2 and 3 This >> one is probably too big for 3k though. > > probably -- but not THAT big -- it seems pretty straightforward to me. > > The bigger challenge is deciding what to do -- the bikeshedding -- and > the backward incompatibility issues. IIRC, when this came up on the > list, there was nothing like consensus on exactly what to do and how > to do it.
TBH, I don't see why 's' should be deprecated --- the operation is well-specified (byte strings + null stripping) and has the same meaning in python2 and 3.
Of course, a true 1-byte unicode subset string may be more useful type for some applications, so it could indeed be added.
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