Stefan Behnel writes: >Hallvard B Furuseth, 11.10.2010 21:50: >> Fine, so programs will have to do it themselves... > > Yes, they can finally handle bytes and Unicode data correctly and > safely. Having byte data turn into Unicode strings unexpectedly makes > the behaviour of your code hardly predictable and fairly error prone. In > Python 3, it's now possible to do the conversion safely at well defined > points in your code and rely on the runtime to bark at you when > something slips through or is mistreated. Detecting errors early makes > your code better. > > That's a huge improvement. It didn't come for free and the current > Python 3 releases still have their rough edges. But there are few left > and the situation is constantly improving. You can help out if you want.
I quite agree with most of that - just not about it being safe, see my reply to Terry Reedy. Hence my suggestion to change or disable bytes.__str__. And yes, I'll be submitting some fixes or bug reports. -- Hallvard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
