On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > PyString -> PyBytes ...
> >
> > -1. This will make merging code from 2.6 harder, and causes more work
> > for porting C extensions.

> There was a thread about this a few weeks ago:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077339.html
>  We can still do the renaming, but alias PyString to PyBytes.

That's a rather long thread. Was any conclusion reached? I'm not sure
how introducing a set of aliases will help merging 2.6 code to 3.0.
Can you or Christian describe the proposed approach in more detail?

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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