[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jun 22 01:27:31 CEST 2010

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:03:58 am Nick Coghlan wrote:

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote: > True, but making it a separate type with a required encoding gets > rid of the magical "I don't know" - the "I don't know" encoding is > just a plain old bytes object.

So, to boil down the ebytes idea, it is basically a request for a second string type that holds an octet stream plus an encoding name, rather than a Unicode character stream.

Do any other languages have any equivalent to this ebtyes type?

If not, how do they deal with this issue?

[...]

This is still smelling an awful lot like the 2.x str type to me

Yes. Virtually the only difference I can see is that it lets the user set a per-object default encoding to use when coercing strings to and from bytes.

If this is not the case, can somebody please explain what I'm missing?

-- Steven D'Aprano

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