Re: [Jython-dev] Re: unicode vs str

[Samuele P. <ped...@st...>]

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> 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. 
> 

but they would not match at all anymore what Jython did so far, in the 
past unicode==str in Jython