On 01/07/2014 06:24 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>> Very nice, thanks. If I was to make a blasphemous suggestion I would >>> even target it for Python 3.4. (No, seriously, this is a big issue >>> - see the recent discussion by Armin - and the big names involved show >>> that it is a major holdup of 3.x uptake.) It would of course depend >>> a lot on how much code from unicode formatting can be retained or >>> adapted as opposed to a rewrite from scratch. >> >> From what I've seen of the unicode formatting code, a lot would have to >> be rewritten or refactored. It is a non-trivial task, definitely >> inappropriate for 3.4. > > I do not know the stringlib well enough, so I have a silly question: > > Would it be possible to re-use the 2.x stringlib just for the bytes type, > name it byteslib and disable features as appropriate?
I do know it pretty well. I think reusing stringlib from either 2.x or 3.x pre-PEP-393 version would be the best way to go about this. Unfortunately, reusing (or sharing) the PEP-393 version currently in 3.4 is probably not realistic. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
