Phillip J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> added the comment: If you want to change to using bytes, you're going to have to take it to the Web-SIG and hash out a revision to PEP 333, which at the moment requires the use of strings, period.
This has nothing to do with the desirability of bytes vs. strings; I am sure that if Python had bytes from day 1, bytes would've been the way to go with it. But simply changing the reference library is not the way to change the spec. In the meantime, as far as I'm aware, there are two other patches pending to address these issues, but I'm not in a position to assess their readiness/correctness since I have yet to even download Py3K. In principle, I approve their approaches, so if someone else can handle the code review, those fixes could in principle be put in without changing the PEP. But to put *this* patch in, the PEP would have to be changed. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4718> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
