[Python-3000] Need help enforcing strict str/bytes distinctions

Wed Aug 29 16:01:17 CEST 2007

On 8/29/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:16:37PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > As anyone following the py3k checkins should have figured out by now,
> > > I'm on a mission to require all code to be consistent about bytes vs.
> > > str. For example binary files will soon refuse str arguments to
> > > write(), and vice versa.
> > >
> > > I have a patch that turns on this enforcement, but I have anout 14
> > > failing unit tests that require a lot of attention. I'm hoping a few
> > > folks might have time to help out.
> > >
> > > Here are the unit tests that still need work:
> > > [...]
> > > test_tarfile
> >
> > Fixed in r57608.
>> Thanks!
>> I fixed most others (I think); we're down to test_asynchat and
> test_urllib2_localnet failing. But I've checked in the main patch
> enforcing stricter str/bytes, just to get things rolling.

I'm working on test_urllib2_localnet now.
Jeremy
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