A Friday 27 November 2009 15:09:00 René Dudfield escrigué: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org> wrote: > > Correct. But, in addition, we are going to need a new 'bytes' dtype for > > NumPy for Python 3, right? > > I think so. However, I think S is probably closest to bytes... and > maybe S can be reused for bytes... I'm not sure though.
That could be a good idea because that would ensure compatibility with existing NumPy scripts (i.e. old 'string' dtypes are mapped to 'bytes', as it should). The only thing that I don't like is that that 'S' seems to be the initial letter for 'string', which is actually 'unicode' in Python 3 :-/ But, for the sake of compatibility, we can probably live with that. > Also, what will a bytes dtype mean within a py2 program context? Does > it matter if the bytes dtype just fails somehow if used in a py2 > program? Mmh, I'm of the opinion that the new 'bytes' type should be available only with NumPy for Python 3. Would that be possible? -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
