[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r60283 - in python/trunk: Include/longintrepr.h Include/longobject.h Include/unicodeobject.h Misc/NEWS Modules/_fileio.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/unicodeobject.c setup.py
Christian Heimes
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Sat Jan 26 17:04:35 CET 2008
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Are you planning to backport bytearrays? I thought we had clearly decided to *not* backport any of the text/bytes model so that the
> Py2.6 string/unicode model remained pure.
The idea raised when I was working on a backport of the io module. The
io module requires a mutable byte type. Guido answered a question in my
issue http://bugs.python.org/issue1919
Backporting bytearray should be relatively clean since it's a brand new
type right?
My initial question was:
I'm not sure how to proceed with the missing bytearray type:
* backport bytearray and the new buffer interface from 3.0
* write a replacement for 2.6
* replace the bytearray code with new code
bytearray is a new type that has no equivalent in Python 2.6. Python
3.0's byte type is basically a modified string type. I don't see a
problem with bytearray, do you?
Christian
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