On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
But even as a separate type, 'ascii' still can't mix with bytes safely,
Yes, it can, because it's also bytes. :-)
If you're using the special ascii type at all, rather than an ordinary str, it's precisely because you want to mix it with bytes. Making that part hard would defeat the purpose,
Indeed, the specific use case here is working with ASCII snippets embedded within ASCII compatible encodings (or otherwise demarcated from the 8-bit data). As I stated elsewhere, we still need more usage of Python 3 in production before we can find out whether or not this is a significant enough use case to require builtin support, or if third party libraries will be up to the task. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia