Merging the py3k-pep3137 branch back into the py3k branch.
No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch. The most obvious changes:
- str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
- bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
- PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.
I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.
The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like. Some changes are still on the to-do list.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
index 3e44886..1e3520f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
# we're running the test on a 32-bit box, of course.
def to_little_endian_string(value, nbytes):
- b = bytes()
+ b = buffer()
for i in range(nbytes):
b.append(value & 0xff)
value >>= 8