[Python-3000] marshalling bytes objects

[Neal Norwitz]

On 8/25/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Can we put this decision off till after the a1 release?

Yes.

> At this point
> I don't expect PyString to be removed in time for the release, which I
> want to be done by August 31.

Agreed.  I plan to make a patch for this and upload it.  All tests
except modulefinder pass (I'm not sure why).  There is a hack in
marshal to convert co_code and co_lnotab to a bytes object after
reading in a string.

n
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>
> On 8/24/07, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/24/07, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I see in PEP 358 (bytes) http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0358/ that
> > > marshalling bytes is an open issue and needs to be specified.  I'm
> > > converting code objects to use bytes for the bytecode and lnotab.  Is
> > > there anything special to be aware of here?
> >
> > By "here" I was originally thinking about the marshaling aspect.  But
> > clearly the mutability of bytes isn't particularly good for code
> > objects. :-)  This goes back to the question of whether bytes should
> > be able to be immutable (frozen).
>
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> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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