On 10/10/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > The tasks I can think of are: > [...] > > (Resend, the first mail didn't make it and I forgot a point) > > While I was working on a patch for the renaming of bytes and str8 I > found some open issues that need to be discussed and addressed: > > - Create an iterator view for PyBytes. The buffer object doesn't have a > view for iteration like bytes have with PyStringIter_Type. Guido said he > wants a view to play nice with the Sequence ABC. > > - Should bytes (PyString_Type) subclass from basestring? It doesn't feel > quite right to me. I think we could remove basestring completely if > bytes doesn't subclass from it. > > - Do we need a common base type for bytes and buffer like e.g. basebytes? > > - The new bytes type (formally known as str8 / PyString_Type) still has > a bunch of methods from its original Python 2.x parent: > > ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', > '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', > '__getnewargs__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', > '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__', > '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rmod__', > '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 'capitalize', 'center', 'count', > 'decode', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'index', > 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 'islower', 'isspace', 'istitle', > 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'partition', 'replace', > 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rpartition', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', > 'splitlines', 'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', > 'upper', 'zfill'] > > Should any of these methods be removed? >
See PEP 3137; http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3137/#methods . -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
