Jeff wrote: > In IronPython 2.7, the io classes are pretty strict that subclasses must > return > bytes from read(). However, in CPython, bytes is an alias for str, and > therefore returning a str is perfectly valid. In particular, the gzip module > does > this, and trying to fix it to handle bytes is a never-ending journey and could > very well break other things. I think changing io to be less strict and accept > strings as a result from read() is a better option. > > Is there anything that likely to be broken by doing so?
I think this will be fine. It will be a binary breaking change (assuming we're talking about just changing the return types on types in the io module to object) but we've always allowed those between major releases. I doubt there's many (if any) callers to these from C# anyway. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
