[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Feb 15 18:17:44 CET 2006

On 2/15/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

If we went with longer names, a slight variation on the opentext/openbinary idea would be to use opentext and opendata.

After some thinking I don't like opendata any more -- often data is text, so the term is wrong. openbinary is fine but long. So how about openbytes? This clearly links the resulting object with the bytes type, which is mutually reassuring.

Regarding open vs. opentext, I'm still not sure. I don't want to generalize from the openbytes precedent to openstr or openunicode (especially since the former is wrong in 2.x and the latter is wrong in 3.0). I'm tempting to hold out for open() since it's most compatible.

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