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

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> Because in IronPython str is just an alias for Unicode.  I think it would
> be extremely broken for us to alias all 3 to unicode especially when bytes
> clearly has a different meaning.
>
>   

Hmm... interesting. :-)

Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:34 AM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Minor bug in conversion of str to bytes?
>
> Dino Viehland wrote:
>   
>> 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!
>>
>>     
>
> In Python 2.6 the bytes type is just an alias for str I believe, am I
> incorrect? If I am correct why is IronPython 2.6 taking a different
> approach?
>
> Michael
>
>   
>> -----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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