[Python-Dev] buffer('abc') == 'abc' is False ?!

[Scott Gilbert]

--- "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
> 
> We currently don't have any notion of separating character data from
> binary except the difference between Unicode and strings. Using
> Unicode for character data only and reserving strings for
> binary data would be nice, except that practice shows that this
> doesn't always work because not all tools in the chain are
> ready for Unicode just yet (including Python's stdlib itself).
> 
> Nevermind, I'll roll my own,
>

I don't know if you've seen PEP 296, but I still hope to finish it and have
it accepted in time for the Python 2.3 release.  That doesn't meet your
requirement of working with Python 2.1 however.









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