On 8/25/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we put this decision off till after the a1 release?
Yes. > At this point > I don't expect PyString to be removed in time for the release, which I > want to be done by August 31. Agreed. I plan to make a patch for this and upload it. All tests except modulefinder pass (I'm not sure why). There is a hack in marshal to convert co_code and co_lnotab to a bytes object after reading in a string. n -- > > On 8/24/07, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/24/07, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I see in PEP 358 (bytes) http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0358/ that > > > marshalling bytes is an open issue and needs to be specified. I'm > > > converting code objects to use bytes for the bytecode and lnotab. Is > > > there anything special to be aware of here? > > > > By "here" I was originally thinking about the marshaling aspect. But > > clearly the mutability of bytes isn't particularly good for code > > objects. :-) This goes back to the question of whether bytes should > > be able to be immutable (frozen). > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
