Hello, I'm trying to get some commercial code for a simple object database we have written for Python 2.6 to work with IronPython 2.6. In Python 2.6 the return type of pickle.dumps() is str, which is of course a byte string. In IronPython 2.6 it is also str, which is of course a unicode string. This 'compatibility' is fine until I put those strings into a database, at which point my interoperability between CPython and IronPython goes off the rails.
I notice that in Python 3.0 the return type of pickle.dumps() is now 'bytes', which is much better. I don't imagine you're about to change the return type in IronPython 2.x to bytes even though that would arguably be the right thing to do. I intend to provide a compatibility wrapper around pickle that returns a bytes instance on CPython 2.6, IronPython 2.6 and Python 3.0. What is the preferred way to transform my unicode 'str' in IronPython into a 'bytes' instance in IronPython that will be byte-compatible with what I'm getting from CPython? Many thanks, Rob Robert Smallshire from home on behalf of Roxar Software Solutions Currently in Norway (UTC +1 hours) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
