[Python-3000] Need help enforcing strict str/bytes distinctions

[Guido van Rossum]

So it does! Thanks! (Did you perchance borrow my time machine? :-)

--Guido

On 8/27/07, Adam Hupp <adam at hupp.org> wrote:
> This patch (already in the tracker) fixes test_csv:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1033
>
> On 8/27/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > As anyone following the py3k checkins should have figured out by now,
> > I'm on a mission to require all code to be consistent about bytes vs.
> > str. For example binary files will soon refuse str arguments to
> > write(), and vice versa.
> >
> > I have a patch that turns on this enforcement, but I have anout 14
> > failing unit tests that require a lot of attention. I'm hoping a few
> > folks might have time to help out.
> >
> > Here are the unit tests that still need work:
> >
> > test_asynchat
> > test_bsddb3
> > test_cgi
> > test_cmd_line
> > test_csv
> > test_doctest
> > test_gettext
> > test_httplib
> > test_shelve
> > test_sqlite
> > test_tarfile
> > test_urllib
> > test_urllib2
> > test_urllib2_localnet
> >
> > Attached is the patch that makes them fail. Note that it forces an
> > error when you use PyBUF_CHARACTERS when calling PyObject_GetBuffer on
> > a str (PyUnicode) object.
> >
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