Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I'm not sure that converting to bytes for Python 3.0 is going to be a simple change. For one thing, most of the arithmetic functions have to do the reverse conversion (int -> str/bytes) at some point.
At the moment, an int -> bytes conversion has to go through unicode (I think); something like bytes(str(n), 'ascii'), so it's not 100% clear that replacing str with bytes is going to produce a speed gain. For now, I'll get the fix for the 2.5/2.6 problem in (it only involves changing 3 lines in decimal.py, along with adding a few extra tests). Changing str -> bytes in 3.0 needs more careful thought, and some benchmarking. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2482> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
