[IronPython] bytes behavior on 2.6...

[Dino Viehland]

I guess the good news here then is that our post-2.6 planning is still
very unclear.  While I'd love us to move to 3.0 to get rid of our 
Unicode issues it seems like there's not enough movement forward in the
community at large - of course until then we're always going to have
subtle Unicode compat issues :(.  

My personal thoughts on this is that we could do a 2.6.1/2/3 after 2.6
ships that focuses on lots of bug fixes and adding non-disruptive 
3.0 features under a -X:Python30 flag.  But we still have some time
to figure out what to do here.  As always input is always welcome!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:50 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] bytes behavior on 2.6...
> 
> Dino Viehland wrote:
> >
> > We have an active bug against our new bytes implementation for 2.6.
> > Currently if you do:
> >
> > b'***'[0]
> >
> > you get back 42 as an int. This matches the 3.0 behavior of bytes but
> > in CPython 2.6 you get back '*'.
> >
> > We could choose to match either form and then we could change it for
> > 3.0. But because we only have Unicode strings today it seems like we
> > might want to match the 3.0 behavior. Of course people might write
> > code expecting the 2.6 behavior and they might be explicitly using
> > byte literals as part of migrating to being compatible w/ 3.0.
> >
> > Does anyone have an opinion on what we should do here?
> >
> 
> Personally I think if you are targeting compatibility with Python 2.6
> then you should be compatible with Python 2.6...
> 
> I'm still hoping you will relent and maintain an IronPython 2.X branch
> as long as Python 2.X is being developed...
> 
> Michael
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