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

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 06:02:32 CET 2006 
On 2/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 2/14/06, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In 3.0 it changes to:
> > "It's...".encode('utf-8')
> > u"It's...".byteencode('utf-8')  # Same as above, kept for compatibility
>
> No. 3.0 won't have "backward compatibility" features. That's the whole
> point of 3.0.

Conceded.


> > I realize it would be odd for the interactive interpret to print them
> > as a list of ints by default:
> > >>> u"It's...".byteencode('utf-8')
> > [73, 116, 39, 115, 46, 46, 46]
>
> No. This prints the repr() which should include the type. bytes([73,
> 116, 39, 115, 46, 46, 46]) is the right thing to print here.

Typo, sorry :)


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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
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