[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Jan 13 07:06:27 CET 2014


On 1/12/2014 8:00 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

Okay, I've thought somewhat. Under the definition above would it be fair to say that Db3Table (a class in my dbf module) is a boundary type? It sits between the actual file and the program, and transforms bytes into actual Python types.

Yes. That is exactly what a boundary type is. It doesn't matter whether it is a file format or a wire protocol format on the non-Python side, the sequence of bytes is defined, using methods that are not directly corresponding to python data types (if they do correspond, the boundary type is trivial). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140112/da9f4d8a/attachment.html>



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