[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack

[Thomas Lee]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> The point is that a bytes and a str instance are never considered equal...
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>   
Sorry. I understand now. My brain must have been on a holiday earlier. 
:) Just pushed an updated patch to the bug tracker.
>> str8() == str() -> False
>> str8() != str() -> True
>>
>> Correct?
>>     
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> Well, in this case you actually have to compare the individual bytes.
> But yes. ;-)
>   
I'm confused: if I'm making == and != between PyString return False 
instead of converting, at what point would I need to be comparing bytes?

The fix I have ready for this merely wipes out the conversion from 
PyString to PyUnicode in PyUnicode_Compare and the existing code takes 
care of the rest. Is this all that's required, or have I misinterpreted 
this one too? :)

Cheers,
Tom