[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack {stage 2]

[Georg Brandl]

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> - change PyString's repr() to return "b'...'"
>>> - change PyBytes's repr() to return "buffer(b'...')"
>>> - change parser so that b"..." returns PyString, not PyBytes
>>> - rename bytes -> buffer, str8 -> bytes
>> 
>> A patch by Alexandre Vassolotti and Christian Heimes exists for these 4 items:
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1247
>> However it breaks too many tests to be applied right now.
> 
> Yes, it's breaking horrible. It doesn't make sense to work on the fixes
> until "change the constructor for PyString to match the one for PyBytes"
> is done. PyString needs to accept an optional encoding and error argument.

I do that, currently, patch should be up in a minute.

Georg

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