[Python-3000] Thoughts on new I/O library and bytecode

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Feb 23 22:22:16 CET 2007


Jason Orendorff schrieb:
> On 2/23/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
>> On 2/21/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> > Patch anyone?
>>
>> See attachement. It's preliminary -- it just calls the global name 'bytes'
>> currently (and not even using the 'right' AST concretion mechanism) which
>> means you can override what the bytes literal creates by assigning to
>> 'bytes' (although I'm sure there's people out there that would love to keep
>> it that way ;-P) It should probably get its own bytecode (no pun intended.)
> 
> Cool!  I finished writing up the PEP about the same time I got this,
> but the PEP isn't executable. :)  I would attach it, but I have a
> feeling the PEP is probably unnecessary at this point...?

Not really - I wrote one for the print function too, when most of the semantics
were already fixed - but I think this could be added to the existing bytes
PEP, as a new section.

Georg



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