[Python-Dev] What to do for bytes in 2.6? (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Sat Jan 19 19:46:07 CET 2008

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

This may seem trivial (because we do all the work, and 2to3 just leaves stuff alone), but having b"" and bytes as aliases for "" and str in 2.6 would mean that we could write 2.6 code that correctly expresses the use of binary data -- and we could use u"" and unicode for code using text, and 2to3 would translate those to "" and str and the code would be correct 3.0 text processing code.

I like this solution because of its simplicity.

Neil

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