On 2008-06-03 01:29, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I will freely admit that I haven't followed this thread in any detail,
but if it were up to me, I'd have the 2.6 internal code use PyString
...
Should we read this as a BDFL pronouncement and make it so?
All that would mean change wise is that trunk r63675 as well as possibly
r63672 and r63677 would need to be rolled back and this whole discussion
over if such a big change should have happened would turn into a moot point.
I would certainly welcome reverting the change.
All that's needed to support PyBytes API in 2.x is a set of #defines
that map the new APIs to the PyString names. That's a clean and
easily understandable solution.
Programmers interested in the code
for a PyString API can then still look up the code in stringobject.c,
e.g. to find out how a certain special case is handled or to check
the ref counting - just like they did for years.
Developer who want to start differentiating between mixed byte/text
data and bytes-only can start using PyBytes for byte data.
I would also add macros that map the PyBytes_* APIs to PyString_*, but
I would not start using these internally except in code newly written
for 2.6 and intended to be "in the spirit of 3.0". IOW use PyString
for 8-bit strings containing text, and PyBytes for 8-bit strings
containing binary data. For 8-bit strings that could contain either
text or data, I'd use PyString, in the spirit of 2.x.
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