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[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 9 08:00:17 CET 2014 
On 09/01/2014 06:50, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:
>>
>>> Believe it or not, sometimes you really don't care about encodings.
>>> Sometimes you just want to parse text files.
>>
>> Files don't contain text, they contain bytes. Bytes only become text
>> when filtered through the correct encoding.
>
> To be honest, you can define text as "A stream of bytes that are split
> up in lines separated by a linefeed", and do some basic text
> processing like that. Just very *basic*, but still. Replacing
> characters. Extracting certain lines etc.
>
> This is harder in Python 3, as bytes does not have all the
> functionality strings has, like formatting. This can probably be fixed
> in Python 3.5, if the relevant PEP gets finished.
>
> For the battery analogy, that's like saying:
>
> "I want a battery."
>
> "What kind?"
>
> "It doesn't matter, as long as it's over 5V."
>
> //Lennart
>

"That Python 3 battery you sold me blew up when I tried using it".

"We've been telling you for years that could happen".

"I didn't think you actually meant it".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence
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