Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

I don't know whether the parameter thing will work or not, but you're
probably right that we need to get the bytes-everywhere API first.

for json as well. Once bytes-everywhere works, then a text API can be

text one.

Given that json is a wire protocol, that sounds like the right approach built on top of it, but it is difficult to build a bytes API on top of a

Agreed!

So I guess the IO library *is* the right model: bytes at the bottom of
the stack, with text as a wrapper around it (mediated by codecs).

-Barry

Yes, that's a very interesting (and proven?) model. I don't quite see how we could apply that email and json, but it seems like there's a good idea there. ;)

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