[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)
M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Aug 18 22:10:32 CEST 2004
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Indeed... and the same is true for almost all other methods (except maybe .replace()).
Sounds like a lot of code will break. We will see. The default string type will be Unicode, so code using .lower will continue to work in many cases. The question is what open(path,"r").read() will return. It seems that Guido wants users to specify "rb" if they want that to be byte strings.
This would imply that we'd need to add an encoding parameter that becomes a required parameter in case 'r' (without 'b') is specified as mode.
Perhaps we should drop 'b' altogether and make encoding a required parameter. We could have a 'binary' codec which then passes through the data as is (as buffer object instead of as Unicode object for most other codecs).
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