[IronPython] Minor bug in conversion of str to bytes?

[Dino Viehland]

Unfortunately there's probably going to continue to be a bunch of corner
cases related to bytes/str/unicode until we move to 3.0.  But hopefully
we can come up w/ reasonable workarounds for most of them.

In this case it seems like we should define __str__ on bytes and make
it return a Unicode string w/o the b''.  We can keep repr in there so
that an explicit repr still gives you the b'' representation...

Ahh, I can't wait until Ipy 3.0!


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Robert Smallshire
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:29 AM
To: 'Discussion of IronPython'
Subject: [IronPython] Minor bug in conversion of str to bytes?

Hello,

Lets create a bytes instance from a str, and convert it back to a str.

>>> a = bytes(ord(c) for c in "Hello World")
>>> a
b'Hello World'
>>> str(a)
"b'Hello World'"

As you can see, the leading b and the quotes become part of the string,
which is unexpected.  I guess the conversion is using __repr__ where it
should use __str__.

Cheers,

Rob

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