[Nick Coghlan]
What would we be converting them to in that case? 2.x strings? (I don't have a problem with that, just pointing out there may be some additional work due to changing the target type).
Yes, the 2.x 'str' type. I haven't thought about whether this could cause 2-to-3 translation problems for people using this in 2.x. (I don't immediately see why it would.) Might there be political reasons not to backport this to 2.x? I seem to recall it being suggested at the PyCon language summit that we should consider making new features 3.x only, but I don't entirely remember what the rationale for this was. [Alexandre Vassalotti]
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Mark Dickinson<dickinsm@gmail.com> wrote:
If these additions to int go in, then presumably the _PyLong_AsBytes and _PyLong_FromBytes functions should be documented and made public (and have their leading underscores removed, too).
You are referring to _PyLong_FromByteArray and _PyLong_AsByteArray, right?
Whoops! Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks. :) Sorry for my silence on the issue tracker. I'll try to find time to look at your new patch this weekend. Mark