Current py3k stage and next steps

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jun 28 09:22:04 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 10:58 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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?

At a deep and philosophical level, no. But practically, yes, there are
often intermediate stages. For example, diff generation.

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