[storm] Should storm have separate String and Blob datatypes?

[Vernon Cole]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:48 AM, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer<gustavo at niemeyer.net>
> wrote:
> >> Actually, Python 2.6 doesn't have a separate bytes type.  It is just
> >> an alias for the existing byte string type:
> >
> [...]
> I know that there were behaviour changes.  What I'm getting at is that
> there are no versions of Python that have both a "str" and "bytes"
> type
>

James:
  I don't think what you said what you meant...
See the following...

<console dump>
C:\Users\vernon>c:\python31\python.exe
Python 3.1 (r31:73574, Jun 26 2009, 20:21:35) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
wi32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> s = str('hello')
>>> b = bytes('hello','ASCII')
>>> b
b'hello'
>>> s
'hello'
</console dump>

I think that the only non-confusing way during transition to Python 3 is to
use a user-defined type for bytes of binary data.

Also, we should plan for an optional attribute for either the individual
field objects, or perhaps the create_database object, to specify which
encoding to use when converting unicode Python strings into 8-bit database
fields.
--
Vernon
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