[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack (original) (raw)
Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue Oct 16 02:04:59 CEST 2007
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while trying to figure out what to update the common method docstrings to say I've come up with terms such as 'byte string' or 'byte buffer' but none of those are extra appealing to me to turn into an ABC name. other thoughts?
On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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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