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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Oct 16 03:45:30 CEST 2007


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?

BinaryData, RawData. I use both 'binary' and 'raw' in my variable names when I have used bytes so that's why those names pop into my head.

-Brett



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