On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
PyString -> PyBytes ...
-1. This will make merging code from 2.6 harder, and causes more work for porting C extensions.
There was a thread about this a few weeks ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077339.html We can still do the renaming, but alias PyString to PyBytes.
That's a rather long thread. Was any conclusion reached? I'm not sure how introducing a set of aliases will help merging 2.6 code to 3.0. Can you or Christian describe the proposed approach in more detail?
As far as I can see, no objections were raised in that thread. Christian explained the probable approach: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077362.html
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