[Python-3000] Fwd: Beta 3 planned for this Wednesday (OT: Beta 3 planned for this Wednesday)

[Jesus Cea]

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Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> Anyone have an opinion on http://bugs.python.org/issue3492 in regards
> to it being a release blocker?
> 
> The gist of it:  zlib returns bytearrays where other modules return
> bytes.  zipimport, because it uses zlib, required bytearrays instead
> of bytes as input.  A few other modules also appear to return
> bytearrays when they're likely better off returning bytes for
> consistency.

I strongly agree that zlib *SHOULD* return bytes. If zimport requires a
bytearray (why?), it can do the conversion itself.

> Whats the big deal if this is not fixed before release?  Users are
> likely to get frustrated at inputs not being hashable without explicit
> (data copy) conversion to an immutable type.  And any code that gets
> written depending on these returning bytearrays instead of bytes would
> need fixing if we waited until 3.1 to fix it.

+1. Release Blocker.

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