[Python-3000] Need help with menial tasks

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Thu Nov 22 10:39:39 CET 2007


Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
> Guido van Rossum:
>> I just changed PEP 3137 to rename the mutable bytes type 'bytearray'
>> instead of 'buffer', and implemented this change in the py3k branch.
>>
>> A lot of code in the Py3k branch still returns PyBytes instances
>> (i.e., bytearray) where it should really return PyString instances
>> (i.e., bytes). I'm not going to be able to make all these changes
>> myself; they require a certain amount of care (e.g. the signature for
>> PyBytes_Resize() is different from that of _PyString_Resize())
>> although in most cases the unittests don't need to be adjusted
>> (because PyBytes() and PyString() compare equal and interoperate in
>> almost all circumstances).
>>
>> If you have submit privileges, please consider helping out by
>> submitting changes for this. If you don't have submit privileges,
>> please help out by submitting patches. Check bugs.python.org
>> frequently to avoid duplicate work. (Posting names of modules fixed
>> here would also be welcome.)
> 
> audioop: done.

datetime: done.

Servus,
   Walter


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