Abstract away some types
Review Request #4907 — Created Nov. 5, 2013 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
Abstract away some types
String and integer types have changed in python 3. In 2.x, the
str
type is a
string of bytes, and theunicode
type is a string of text. In 3.x, the
bytes
type has replaced the oldstr
, andstr
has replacedunicode
. The
six library has abstractions for these that we can use while we're trying to
support both.Additionally, 3.x has merged the
int
andlong
types, so there's a similar
abstraction for that.There's still a lot of more complicated stuff to do with how we handle strings,
because of the changes to string literals. The stuff where we handle encoding
for diffs will require some special attention, I think.
Ran unit tests.