Re: [Python-Dev] Rename str/unicode to text [Was: Re: str object going in Py3K]

2006-02-16 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 2/16/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we're at it, any chance of renaming str/unicode to text in 3.0? > It's a MUCH better name, as evidenced by the opentext/openbytes names. > str is just some odd C-ism. > > Obviously it's a form of gratuitous breakage, but I think the long >

[Python-Dev] Rename str/unicode to text [Was: Re: str object going in Py3K]

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Olsen
On 2/15/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/15/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:29 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > > > > >> Maybe a weird idea, but why not use static methods on the > > >> bytes and str type objec