Message 124770 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Amaury> At this point a feature change seems unlikely, Amaury> but it's not too late to emit a DeprecationWarning.

I prefer to break the API today than having to maintain a broken API for 10 or 20 years :-) And we have a very small user base using Python 3, it's easier to change it now, than in the next release.

Amaury> But there are probably working usages with unicode strings out Amaury> there. For example, I've seen code like Amaury> struct.pack('<6sHHBBB','GIF87a', ...) Amaury> Do you suggest to make this 3.1 code stop working in 3.2?

Yes. As I wrote in my previous message, this can be changed to struct.pack('<6sHHBBB', b'GIF87a', ...), which works on 3.1 and 3.2 (patched).