[Python-Dev] bytes (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jun 22 22:41:54 CEST 2010

On 6/22/2010 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep track of text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer do. Thanks Glyph. That is a nice summary of one kind of challenge facing programmers. Ironically, Glyph also described the pain in 2.x: it only "kinda" worked.

The people with problematic code to convert must imclude some who managed to tolerate and perhaps suppress the pain. I suspect that conversion attempts brings it back to the surface. It is natural to blame the re-surfacer rather than the original source. (As in 'blame the messenger').

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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