[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-448144 ] incompatible change of string type name

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Bugs item #448144, was opened at 2001-08-05 05:43
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: incompatible change of string type name

Initial Comment:
In Python 2.1 and earlier, type("").__name__ was 
"string". In 2.2a1, it is "str". This change breaks 
the xml.marshal package of PyXML, which uses the type 
name to generate a method m_string. Since there is no 
m_str method implemented, running the marshaller 
under 2.2 fails.


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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-08-06 11:47

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Hm. If I change the type's name back to 'string', the
built-in name for it has to be 'string' (otherwise some part
of marshal or pickle won't work). But I had hoped to use the
'string' built-in name for the base class of str and
unicode.

Is it terribly inconvenient to have to rename the m_string
function to m_str?


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