Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Personally, I still think that converting to the latin-1 encoding is
>> probably just as good for this particular use case.
>
> Although that's a conceptually screwy thing to do
> when your data has nothing to do with characters.
Yeah, this approach seems to run counter to the whole point of getting
rid of the current str type: "for binary data use bytes, for text use
Unicode, unless you need your binary data to be hashable, and then you
decode it to gibberish Unicode via the latin-1 codec"
This would mean that the Unicode type would acquire all of the ambiquity
currently associated with the 8-bit str type: does it contain actual
text, or does it contain arbitrary latin-1 decoded binary data?
A separate frozenbytes type (with the bytes API instead of the string
API) would solve the problem far more cleanly.
Easy-for-me-to-say-when-I'm-not-providing-the-code-'ly yours,
Nick.
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