Greg Ewing writes: > Web developers might grumble about the need for an extra call, > but they can no longer claim it would kill the performance of > their web server.
Of course they can. There never was any performance measurement that supported that claim in the first place. I don't see how PEP 393 makes a difference to them. The real problem for them is that conceptually they think ASCII in byte form *is* text, and they want to do text processing on it. They'll use any flimsy excuse to avoid a transform to str, because it's just unbearably ugly given their givens. I have sympathy for their position, I just (even today) think it's the wrong thing for Python. However, I've long since been overruled, and I have no evidence to justify saying "I told you so".<wink/> _______________________________________________ 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
