[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 16 04:00:16 CET 2006


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

E.g. bytes.openfile(...) and unicode.openfile(...) (in 3.0 renamed to str.openfile())

This seems wrong to me, because it creates an unnecessary dependency of the bytes/str/unicode types on the file type. These types should remain strictly focused on being just containers for data.

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