Am 11.01.2014 10:44, schrieb Stephen Hansen: > I mean, its not like the "bytes" type lacks knowledge of the subset of bytes > that happen to be 7-bit ascii-compatible and can't perform text-ish operations > on them-- > > Python 3.3.3 (v3.3.3:c3896275c0f6, Nov 18 2013, 21:18:40) [MSC v.1600 32 bit > (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> b"stephen hansen".title() > b'Stephen Hansen' > > How is this not a practical recognition that yes, while bytes are byte streams > and not text, a huge subset of bytes are text-y, and as long as we maintain > the > barrier between higher characters and implicit conversion therein, we're fine? > > I don't see the difference here. There is a very real, practical need to > interpolate bytes. This very real, practical need includes the very real > recognition that converting 12345 to b'12345' is not something weird, unusual, > and subject to the thorny issues of Encodings. It is not violating the > doctrine > of separation of powers between Text and Bytes.
This. Exactly. Thanks for putting it so nicely, Stephen. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
