FWIW, that is also the way things are done in the pickle/cPickle module. dump/dumps and load/loads to differentiate between the file object and string ways of using that functionality.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk>wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >>> Of course, one could use message.header and message.bythdr and they'd >>>> be the same length. >>>> >>> I was trying to figure out what a 'thdr' was that we'd want to index >>> 'by' it. :) >>> >> >> In the discussions about os.environ, the suggested approach was to just >> tack a 'b' onto the end of the name to get the bytes version (i.e. >> os.environb). >> >> That aligns nicely with the b"" prefix for bytes literals, and isn't >> much of a typing or reading burden when dealing with the bytes API >> instead of the text one. >> >> A similar naming scheme (i.e. msg.headers and msg.headersb) would >> probably work for email as well. >> > > That just feels nasty though :-( > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > 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/brian.curtin%40gmail.com >
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