On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:56:18 -0500, you wrote:

[Andy Robinson]

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... I presume no one is actually advocating dropping ordinary Python strings, or the ability to do rawdata = open('myfile.txt', 'rb').read() without any transformations?

If anyone has advocated either, they've successfully hidden it from me. Anyone?

Well, I hear statements looking forward to when all string-handling is done in Unicode internally. This scares the hell out of me - it is what VB does and that bit us badly on simple stream operations. For encoding work, you will always need raw strings, and often need Unicode ones. - Andy

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:56:18 -0500, you wrote:

[Andy Robinson]

...

... I presume no one is actually advocating dropping ordinary Python strings, or the ability to do rawdata = open('myfile.txt', 'rb').read() without any transformations?

If anyone has advocated either, they've successfully hidden it from me. Anyone?

Well, I hear statements looking forward to when all string-handling is done in Unicode internally. This scares the hell out of me - it is what VB does and that bit us badly on simple stream operations. For encoding work, you will always need raw strings, and often need Unicode ones. - Andy