On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:29:17 -0000 exarkun@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
On 01:49 pm, solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:25:14 -0400 Itamar Turner-Trauring <itamar@itamarst.org> wrote:
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Indeed, this is debatable. But generally, marshalling libraries have to evolve a bit when ported to Python 3. There's no way the semantic gap between 2.x and 3.x can be ignored.
I think banana in 3.x *has* to support both types. str is a fundamental type in 3.x (think that class names, function names, filenames, etc. all are str by default) and not supporting it in a marshalling library would be pretty much awkward. bytes is fundamental in a networking library and not supporting it would be similarly awkward :)
Unicode is handled by Jelly. The only thing Banana does is turn objects into bytes to put into a socket and vice versa. Text in Python 3 will be handled the same way as text in Python 2: jelly will UTF-8 encode it before handing it to banana.
Hmm, ok, I will take another look then. Regards Antoine.