[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jun 24 23:50:56 CEST 2010

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:07:41 +0100 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

Although it would require changes for builtin types like file to work with a new string ABC, right?

There is no builtin file type in 3.x. Besides, it is not an ABC-level problem; the IO layer is written in C (although there's still the Python implementation to play with), which would mandate an abstract C API to access unicode-like objects (similarly as there's already the buffer API to access bytes-like objects).

Regards

Antoine.

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