On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote: > You mention bug #22258 - is Mercurial using byte array notation wherever > they intend to have a non-Unicode string?
Turns out, I thought buffers == byte arrays, but apparently they're not. I also managed to mix up changes that are in 3.0 with what went in to 2.6 (I thought file.read() returned a byte[] in 2.6...nope). I've just thoroughly confused myself. Whee. It still repros if you use b = buffer(...); my description is just wrong. However, Mercurial does not use b'', since they have to be compatible with more than 2.6. > > But as long as Mercurial is consistently using b'' for its non-Unicode > strings then things will work. Hopefully if they're not they'd look > upon those changes as just being goodness for 3.x compat. I don't think there are many places where b'' would be necessary. Most of the intersting data in Mercurial is read from files and handled in chunks (using struct.pack/unpack), or at least the stuff I've dealt with so far. It looks like calling str() on a buffer should just return the underlying string data, but I'm not sure. The changes to PythonFile don't look as bad as I thought, so maybe I'll play with it a bit and see if writing the buffers to file directly helps at all. - Jeff _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com