Josiah Carlson wrote: > It would be a radical change for Python 2.6, and really the 2.x series, > likely requiring nontrivial changes to extension modules that deal with > strings, and the assumptions about strings that have held for over a > decade.
the assumptions hidden in everyone's use of the C-level string API is the main concern here, at least for me; radically changing the internal format is not a new idea, but it's always been held off because we have no idea how people are using the C API. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
