[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Oct 16 01:04:54 CEST 2007


On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

There's one thing that I forgot to add to PEP 3137. It's the removal of the basestring type. I think this is a reasonable thing to do. Christian Heimes has a patch that does this cleanly. Anyone objecting, please speak up now!

And, quite separately, we will need a common base type for bytes and buffer. I think that should be an ABC in the collections module though, which simply registers bytes and buffer. Any suggestions for a name?

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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