Lennart Regebro wrote: > I also would really like to see a real port of the bytes class to 2.6, > but I have a vague memory that there was some reason that wouldn't > work.
Not so much that it wouldn't work, but that the interfaces to support using it effectively really aren't there - lots of areas in the standard library needed to be tweaked to cope with bytes objects in 3.x. Generally speaking, the "bytes = str" trick represents a reasonable compromise as the APIs that you would pass a bytes object to in 3.x expect an 8-bit str instance in 2.x. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
