On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:39, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I can't help feeling the people arguing for b"..." as the
> repr format haven't really accepted the fact that text and
> binary data will be distinct things in py3k, and are thinking
> of bytes as being a replacement for the old string type. B
On 3/2/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very cool. This should make the PEP a complete success!
>
Thanks to Collin for doing this! Makes my life a heck of a lot easier.
-Brett
> On 3/2/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 3/2/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Saturday 03 March 2007 16:02, I wrote:
> Here's an ugly, impure, but possibly practical answer:
> give each bytes object a single-bit flag meaning something
> like "mostly textual";
...
> Obviously the flag wouldn't affect comparisons or hashing.
Josiah Carlson mailed me to point out that, duh
On 3/3/07, Gareth McCaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:39, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
> > I can't help feeling the people arguing for b"..." as the
> > repr format haven't really accepted the fact that text and
> > binary data will be distinct things in py3k, and are think
On 3/3/07, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When Erlang is printing the "repr" of a list or binary term to the
> shell it first checks to see if every item is printable ASCII integer.
> If so, then it prints as an ASCII string. Otherwise, it prints as a
> list of decimal integers. It doesn
On 3/3/07, Daniel Stutzbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When Erlang is printing the "repr" of a list or binary term to the
> > shell it first checks to see if every item is printable ASCII integer.
> > If so, then it prints as an ASCII string.
I have mixed feelings; I won't go so far as to say I oppose removing
tuple-arguments, but some of the problems do have other solutions.
On 3/2/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But there is great difficulty when it comes to tuple parameters. The
> existence of a tuple parameter is de
Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When Erlang is printing the "repr" of a list or binary term to the
>> shell it first checks to see if every item is printable ASCII integer.
>> If so, then it prints as an ASCII string. Otherwise, it prints as a
>> list
On 3/3/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have mixed feelings; I won't go so far as to say I oppose removing
> tuple-arguments, but some of the problems do have other solutions.
>
Sure some of them have other solutions, but that does not mean that
they should be fixed just to save this
