On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:10:21PM -0700, Andrew Barnert wrote:
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> And most of the string affixes people have suggested are for
> string-ish things.
I don't think that's correct. Looking back at the original post in this
thread, here are the motivating examples:
[quote]
There are quite a
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 8:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > So b"abc" should not be allowed?
>
> In what way are byte-STRINGS not strings? Unicode-strings and
> byte-strings share a significant fraction of their APIs, and are so
> similar that back in Python 2.2 the devs thought it was a good idea
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:31:15PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 8:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > So b"abc" should not be allowed?
> >
> > In what way are byte-STRINGS not strings? Unicode-strings and
> > byte-strings share a significant fraction of their APIs, and are
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:19:58PM +0100, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote:
> Just curious: Is there any reason not to make decimal.Decimal a
> built-in type?
Yes: it is big and complex, with a big complex API that is over-kill for
the major motivating use-case for a built-in decimal type.
T
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 10:47 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:31:15PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 8:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > > So b"abc" should not be allowed?
> > >
> > > In what way are byte-STRINGS not strings? Unicode-strings and
