[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Jan 13 22:08:18 CET 2014

On 1/13/2014 9:38 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 01/13/2014 09:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:36:05 -0800 Ethan Furman wrote:

You mean crash all the time? I'd be fine with that for both the str case and the bytes case. But's probably too late to change the str case, and the bytes case should mirror what str does. Let me add something else: str and bytes don't have to be symmetrical. In Python 2, str and unicode were symmetrical, they allowed exactly the same operations and were composable. In Python 3, str and bytes are different beasts; they have different operations and different semantics (for example, bytes interoperates with bytearray and memoryview, while str doesn't). This makes sense to me. So I'm guess I'm fine with either the quoted ascii repr or the always blowing up method, with leaning towards the blowing up method.

+1 - what Ethan said. A real death, instead death by inappropriately transformed data, is fine by me, if b"%s" % str(...) doesn't have the appropriate .encode(...) call. But I could live with either. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140113/857e4cb9/attachment.html>

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