Nick Coghlan wrote: > 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.
I see the problem differently: if a bytes type was added, nothing would use it. In particular, IO wouldn't start returning bytes (although it could accept them); IO would continue to return str. Therefore, I'm skeptical that adding a *third* string type to 3.x would do any good. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
