On May 29, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
(However, there are use cases where it is claimed that 'HELO ' is needed both as str and as bytes.)
My current opinion is that all of this still needs more experimentation outside the core before we start fiddling any further with the builtins (we blinked once in the lead-up to 3.0 by allowing bytes and bytearray to retain a lot of string methods that assume an ASCII compatible encoding, and I now have my doubts about the wisdom of even that step). I don't have a good answer on how to deal with the real world situations where the *use case* blurs the bytes/text distinction (typically by embedding ASCII text inside an otherwise binary protocol), and given the potential to backslide into the bad old days of 8-bit strings, I'm not prepared to guess, either.
+1 Raymond