On 2008-03-02 23:11, Greg Ewing wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Why not also make unicode() the default type constructor and only >> keep str() as alias to simplify porting (perhaps with a warning) ? > > -1 on making us type 7 characters instead of > 3 all over the place.
Oh well... how about "text()" ? >> The term "string" is just too overloaded with all kinds of >> misinterpretations. The term "string" just refers to a string of >> bytes - a variable length array so to speak. > > I disagree -- "string" has come to mean "string of > characters" unless otherwise qualified. Using one > to hold non-characters is just an aberration that > was necessary in Python 2 because there wasn't much > alternative. Buffer objects have been around for years and for exactly this purpose. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 03 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ 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
