[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > But why can't I have perfectly polymorphic "append a bunch of strings > together", just like I can now (with ''.join of a list of strings, or > StringIO), without caring whether the strings are Unicode or > bytestrings?
I see that 'a' + u'b' = u'ab', which makes sense. I don't use Unicode much so haven't paid much attention to such things. Is there some sound reason cStringIO acts differently from StringIO? I'd expect them to both do the same thing. > As for extending cStringIO.write I guess that's > possible, but not without breaking compatibility ... you'd > need instead to add another couple of methods, or wait for Py3k. We're already discussing adding another method, namely __iadd__. Maybe that's the place to put it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
