[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Ian Bicking]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Ian Bicking writes:
>
>  > I'm proposing these specials would be used in polymorphic functions,
> like
>  > the functions in urllib.parse.  I would not personally use them in my
> own
>  > code (unless of course I was writing my own polymorphic functions).
>  >
>  > This also makes it less important that the objects be a full stand-in
> for
>  > text, as their use should be isolated to specific functions, they aren't
>  > objects that should be passed around much.  So you can easily identify
> and
>  > quickly detect if you use unsupported operations on those text-like
>  > objects.
>
> OK.  That sounds reasonable to me, but I don't see any need for
> a builtin type for it.  Inclusion in the stdlib is not quite a
> no-brainer, but given Guido's endorsement of polymorphism, I can't
> bring myself to go lower than +0.9 <wink>.
>

Agreed on a builtin; I think it would be fine to put something in the
strings module, and then in these examples code that used '/' would instead
use strings.ascii('/') (not sure so sure of what the name should be though).


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Ian Bicking  |  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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