[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?]

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/13/06, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> So, in python2.X, you have:
> - bytes("\x80"), you get a bytestring with a single byte of value
> 0x80 (when no encoding is specified, and the object is a str, it
> doesn't try to encode it at all).
> - bytes("\x80", encoding="latin-1"), you get an error, because
> encoding "\x80" into latin-1 implicitly decodes it into a unicode
> object first, via the system-wide default: ascii.
> - bytes(u"\x80"), you get an error, because the default encoding for
> a unicode string is ascii.
> - bytes(u"\x80", encoding="latin-1"), you get a bytestring with a
> single byte of value 0x80.

Yes to all.

> In py3k, when the str object is eliminated, then what do you have?
> Perhaps
> - bytes("\x80"), you get an error, encoding is required. There is no
> such thing as "default encoding" anymore, as there's no str object.
> - bytes("\x80", encoding="latin-1"), you get a bytestring with a
> single byte of value 0x80.

Yes to both again.

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