PEP 263 phase 2 implementation (Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
26 Mar 2002 09:25:04 +0100

SUZUKI Hisao <suzuki611@oki.com> writes:

Note that it is not a challenge for my implementation at all. You can use your binary strings as they are at present. Please try it.

Actually, I did (see my comments on sf): In a Unicode string, escape processing of, say, u"=F6" works incorrectly in your implementation, and in a plain string, processing is incorrect if you have an encoding which uses '' as the second byte.

> People had been proposing to introduce b'' strings for binary data, to > allow to switch 'plain' strings to denote Unicode strings at some > point, but this is a different PEP. =20 I think you need not introduce b'' strings at all; you can keep it simple as it is.

The rationale is different: people where proposing that all string literals should be Unicode strings - then the question is how to denote byte strings.

Regards, Martin