[Zope3-dev] Re: What does python 3000 mean for zope?

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Sat Sep 1 13:39:49 EDT 2007


On Friday 31 August 2007 23:35, Fred Drake wrote:
> A biggie is going to be the replacement of immutable str for binary
> data; that gets replaced with a mutable bytes object.  It'll be good
> to have, but the loss of an immutable sequence-of-bytes type seems
> like a problem to me.

Oh, I did not know that bytes will be mutable. While I see why you would want 
to do this, I agree this will have some many subtle side effects that it will 
take us a while to get all the code changed reliably.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training


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