On 12/01/2014 17:03, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 01/12/2014 08:21 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: >> On 01/12/2014 08:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> On 13 Jan 2014 01:22, "Kristján Valur Jónsson" wrote: >>>> >>>> Imho, this is not equivalent to re-introducing automatic type >>>> conversion between binary/unicode, it is adding a >>>> specific convenience function for explicitly asking for ASCII encoding. >>> >>> It is not explicit, it is implicit - whether or not the resulting >>> string assumes ASCII compatibility or not depends on >>> whether you pass a binary value (no assumption) or a string value >>> (assumes ASCII compatibility). >> >> Nick, I don't understand what you are saying here. Are you saying >> that the result of b'%s' % var may be either a bytes >> object or a str object? Because that would be wrong -- it would >> always be a bytes object. > > Okay, I just went and took a closer look at the asciistr type [1]. For > what it's worth I don't think this is Antoine's understanding of what we > [2] are asking for, nor is it what we are asking for (I'm sure Antoine > will correct me if I'm wrong. ;) > > We know full well the difference between unicode and bytes, and we know > full well that numbers and much of the text we need has an ASCII > (bytes!) representation. When we do a b'Content Length: %d' % > len(binary_data) we are expecting to get back a bytes object, /not/ a > unicode object. > > Your asciistr, which sometimes returns bytes and sometimes returns text, > is absolutely *not* what we want. I've just tried asciistr using your test code (having corrected the typo, it's assertIsInstance, not assertIsinstance :) and it looks like a very good starting point. Have you, or anyone else for that matter, actually tried asciistr out? > > -- > ~Ethan~ > > > [1] https://github.com/jeamland/asciicompat > [2] the dbf and pdf folks, at least -- 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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