[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?] (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Feb 14 07:58:01 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

In py3k, when the str object is eliminated, then what do you have? Perhaps - bytes("\x80"), you get an error, encoding is required. There is no such thing as "default encoding" anymore, as there's no str object. - bytes("\x80", encoding="latin-1"), you get a bytestring with a single byte of value 0x80.

Yes to both again.

Please reconsider, and don't give bytes() an encoding= argument. It doesn't need one. In Python 3, people should write

"\x80".encode("latin-1")

if they absolutely want to, although they better write

bytes([0x80])

Now, the first form isn't valid in 2.5, but

bytes(u"\x80".encode("latin-1"))

could work in all versions.

Regards, Martin

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