[Python-Dev] to rename or not...

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jul 31 10:09:46 CEST 2013


Le Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:15:50 +0200,
Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> a écrit :
> 
> Because of this I'd like to introduce a new API in plistlib that
> fixes both problems. In particular:
> 
> * Add 'load', 'loads', 'dump' and 'dumps', those use "bytes" for
> binary data by default
> 
> * Keep and deprecate "readPlist", "writePlist" and the their string
> equivalents, those still use Data objects (and call the new API to do
> the actual work).
> 
> I'd like some feedback on this change. On the one hand the new APIs
> make it possible to clean up the API of plistlib, on the other hand
> this is a big API change.

+1 on the principle. I can't say more, not being a Mac user.

Regards

Antoine.




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