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

[Ron Adam]

Greg Ewing wrote:

> I think you don't understand what an encoding is. Unicode
> strings don't *have* an encoding, because theyre not encoded!
> Encoding is what happens when you go from a unicode string
> to something else.

Ah.. ok, my mental picture was a bit off.  I had this reversed somewhat.


> It's not just a matter of length. I'm not sure of the
> details, but I believe longs are currently stored as an
> array of 16-bit chunks, of which only 15 bits are used.
> I'm having trouble imagining a use for low-level access
> to that format, other than just treating it as an opaque
> lump of data for turning back into a long later -- in
> which case why not just leave it as a long in the first
> place.

I had laps thinking Pythons longs are the same as c longs. I know 
Pythons longs can get much much bigger.

The idea was to be able to show the byte data as is in what ever form it 
takes and not try to change it, weather it's longs, floats, strings, etc.

Cheers,
     Ron