Current py3k stage and next steps

[Antoine Pitrou]

Matt Mackall <mpm <at> selenic.com> writes:
> 
> Neat. Not sure it helps us though. We still have the issue that byte
> strings may be unreasonably large.

Do you combine text and bytes for other purposes than I/O?

For example, you could easily turn:
    ui.write(_("some message: %s\n") % somerawdata)
into:
    ui.write(_("some message: "))
    ui.writeb(somerawdata)
    ui.write("\n")

where ui.writeb() would write the raw data directly and without any decoding.

(I'm using ui as an example but the same applies to file I/O, of course)

Regards

Antoine.