[Python-Dev] What to do for bytes in 2.6?

[Christian Heimes]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I don't think any of that is necessary. I would rather have the
> following two in the language by default (see my response to Terry and
> Raymond):
> 
> bytes is an alias for str (not even a subclass)
> b"" is an alias for ""

Ah, you like to keep it simple. The aliases are easily to implement.
Give me twenty minutes to implement it and write some unit tests.

> There is only one thing I'd like -3 to warn about regarding except
> clauses: if the 'err' variable is used past the end of the except
> clause. That is a true semantic change that 2to3 cannot easily fix or
> flag. Consider this an example of how 2to3 and -3 should augment each
> other.

Several warnings have to be removed: ``, callable and maybe more.

Christian