Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Please mail followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The PEP has been rewritten based on a suggestion by Guido to change > str() rather than adding a new built-in function. Based on my > testing, I believe the idea is feasible. It would be helpful if > people could test the patched Python with their own applications and > report any incompatibilities. >
I like the fact that currently unicode(x) is guarateed to return a unicode instance, or raises a UnicodeDecodeError. Same for str(x), which is guaranteed to return a (byte) string instance or raise an error. Wouldn't also a new function make the intent clearer? So I think I'm +1 on the text() built-in, and -0 on changing str. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
