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.
codec to test all charmap codec features.
As side-effect of moving the test codec into a new module, the encodings
package codec import mechanism is checked as well.
Guido van Rossum
Georg Brandl
Walter Dörwald
Tim Peters
Marc-André Lemburg