Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 10/19/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/7/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to make complete implementation of PEP 3137 the goal for the > > > 3.0a2 release. It should be doable to do this

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 10/19/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> - change PyString's repr() to return "b'...'" > >> - change PyBytes's repr() to return "buffer(b'...')" > >> - change parser so that b"..." returns PyString, not PyBytes > >> - rename bytes -> buffer, str8 -> by

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 10/7/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make complete implementation of PEP 3137 the goal for the > 3.0a2 release. It should be doable to do this release by the end of > October. I don't think anything else *needs* to be done to have a > successful a2 release. I'm sti

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 10/19/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I may take it as a challenge to write the view but I don't know if I can > handle it. I'm still learning how to program C for Python. It may be a > good opportunity to learn more. If you don't mind that it may take > longer and if somebod

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On 10/19/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/7/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to make complete implementation of PEP 3137 the goal for the > > 3.0a2 release. It should be doable to do this release by the end of > > October. I don't think anything el

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum wrote: >> I only pointed out that it's missing. I didn't say that I would write it >> because I don't feel qualified and experienced enough for it. > > Oops, sorry again. I may take it as a challenge to write the view but I don't know if I can handle it. I'm still learning how to

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Georg Brandl
Christian Heimes schrieb: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> - change PyString's repr() to return "b'...'" >>> - change PyBytes's repr() to return "buffer(b'...')" >>> - change parser so that b"..." returns PyString, not PyBytes >>> - rename bytes -> buffer, str8 -> bytes >> >> A patch by Alexandre Vas

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum wrote: >> - change PyString's repr() to return "b'...'" >> - change PyBytes's repr() to return "buffer(b'...')" >> - change parser so that b"..." returns PyString, not PyBytes >> - rename bytes -> buffer, str8 -> bytes > > A patch by Alexandre Vassolotti and Christian Heimes exist

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

2007-10-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On 10/19/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> I only pointed out that it's missing. I didn't say that I would write it > >> because I don't feel qualified and experienced enough for it. > > > > Oops, sorry again. > > I may take it as a challenge to write th