[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Cowan wrote:
> Python has been suffering through that for several years now, and has
> decided to break backward compatibility and abandon the 8-bit strings --
> but using the 8-bit names for Unicode strings. I don't know what the
> internal implementation is.
John, I can't find any support for that, at least not among the developer
mailing list summaries at http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ nor among the
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/.
I assure you, this will happen in Python 3.0. People are working on
it; a PEP probably isn't far off. GvR has already written a PEP
describing the "bytes" type for 8-bit data:
The "bytes" Object
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0358/
GvR has also written a draft PEP for the new I/O system, including
code for open(). That one should be posted later this week.
-j
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