From: Stuart D. G. <st...@bm...> - 2005-08-05 04:21:31
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 jyt...@li... wrote: > > Is not a unicode object a string object in unicode disguise? > Yes, in fact it is even worse than that: a Jython 'str' object is a > wrapper around Java's unicode-based String, and a Jython 'unicode' > object is implemented as a thin wrapper around the jython 'str' > object. We are going through these contortions in an attempt to make > the CPython standard libraries and unit tests happier, however it > looks like things are breaking down in this case. Would it be worse to make a Jython 'str' object a wrapper around a Java byte[]? It would mean reimplementing a lot of str functionality in Java instead of reusing Java, but representation and behaviour would naturally match CPython. I saw a ByteString class for java a while ago. -- Stuart D. Gathman <st...@bm...> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. |