[Python-Dev] PEP 414 updated

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 04, 2012, at 05:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>My rewritten version of PEP 414 is now up
>(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/). It describes in detail a lot more
>of the historical background that was taken as read when Guido accepted the
>PEP.

Nick, really great job with your rewrite of PEP 414.  I think you nailed it
from the technical side while bringing some much needed balance to the social
side.  Not to diminish Armin's contribution to the PEP - after all this, I'm
really glad he was able to bring it up and despite the heat of the discussion,
get this resolved to his satisfaction.

One factual omission:

In the section on WSGI "native strings", you say

 * binary data: handled as str in Python 2 and bytes in Python 3

While true, this omits that binary data can *also* be handled as bytes in
Python 2.6 and 2.7, where using `bytes` can be a more descriptive alias for
`str`.  If you can do it in a readable way within the context of that section
I think it's worth mentioning this.

Cheers,
-Barry
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