lemburg mbuegenixcom 20080302 1447 christian heimes wrote alex martelli wrote yep please keep pyunicode str pystring bytes macrossynonnyms pystr pybytes want help task porting existing extensions bytearray functions doubt pybytearray though yeah weve already planed keep pyunicode prefix str type functions makes perfectly sense historical point view pystring planed rename prefix pybytes opinion going regret keep many legacy names 2x order make migration process easier add header file provides pystring_ functions aliases pybytes_ comments 1 also make unicode default type constructor keep str alias simplify porting perhaps warning term string overloaded kinds misinterpretations term string refers string bytes variable length array speak however depending application space string used synonym text string well data string removing term string altogether would make easier people understand py3k unicode text data bytes binary data marcandre lemburg egenixcom professional python services directly source 1 mar 02 2008 pythonzope consulting support httpwwwegenixcom mxodbczopedatabaseadapter httpzopeegenixcom mxodbc mxdatetime mxtexttools httppythonegenixcom ________________________________________________________________________ try mxodbczopeda windowslinuxsolarismacosx free egenixcom software skills services gmbh pastorloehstr48 d40764 langenfeld germany ceo diplmath marcandre lemburg registered amtsgericht duesseldorf hrb 46611 _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 030015 0100 pythondev capi status python 3