* Matt Giuca wrote: > > This whole discussion circles too much, I think. Maybe it should be > > pepped? > > The issue isn't circular. It's been patched and tested, then a whole lot > of people agreed including Guido. Then you and Bill wanted the bytes > functionality back. So I wrote that in there too, and Bill at least said > that was sufficient. > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008, Bill Janssen wrote: > > But: OK, OK, I yield. Though I still think this is a bad idea, I'll > > shut up if we can also add "unquote_as_bytes" which returns a byte > > sequence instead of a string. I'll just change my code to use that. > > We've reached, to quote Guido, "as close as consensus as we can get on > this issue".
There are a lot of quotes around. Including "After the most recent flurry of discussion I've lost track of what's the right thing to do." But I don't talk for other people. > There is a bug in Python. I've proposed a working fix, and nobody else > has. Well, you proposed a patch ;-) It may fix things, it will break a lot. While this was denied over and over again, it's still gonna happen, because the axioms are still not accounting for the reality. > I made all the changes the community suggested. I don't think so. > What more needs to be discussed here? Huh? You feel, the discussion is over? Then why are there still open questions? I admit, a lot of discussion is triggered by the assessments you're stating in your posts. Don't take it as a personal offense, it's a simple observation. There were made a lot of statements and nobody even bothered to substantiate them. A PEP could fix that. But it's a lost issue now. Nobody comes up with an alternative (for various reasons, I suppose). So go ahead, EOD from my side. nd _______________________________________________ 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
