[Zope-dev] Python 3.3 port of zope.configuration

[Brian Sutherland]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:06:13PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> On 04/26/2012 04:39 AM, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 07:37:46PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
> >> Also, do your branches still pass tests on 3.2.x?  I'm sort of keen
> >> to see both zope.schema and zope.configuration join the "2to3-free"
> >> camp with zope.event, zope.interface, zope.i18nmessageid, and
> >> zope.exceptions (yes, zope.configuration, I'm looking at you next).
> > 
> > I see you've started doing this in a better and more rigorous way than
> > I was. So I'm going to abandon my plans to merge in favour of your 
> > branches.
> > 
> > I'd still urge you to have a look at my zope.schema branch, which I 
> > think solves a real problem with URI fields and Python 3. The patch
> > is pretty small.
> 
> My zope.schema branch is largely focused on improving the unittest
> coverage, while also making the package work with Python 3.2 (i.e., not
> relying on 3.3's restoration of unicode literals).
> 
> I would be glad to look at your branch;  I had already considered making
> the "native string" fields APIs.  I'm not sure that I agree that the
> ASCII / URI / Id / DottedName fields should have native string as its
> type:  can you help by elaborating there?  

For DottedName we're basically forced to use native strings as you can
import modules with unicode names on python 3:

    >>> from 漢語 import Español
    >>> print(Español)
    <class '漢語.Español'>

Id is either a URI or a DottedName. So it must, like DottedName, also be
a native string.

As for URI, python 3 library functions seem to not care, so we can
choose either:

    >>> from urllib.parse import urlparse
    >>> urlparse('http://www.example.com/unicode')
    ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='www.example.com', path='/unicode', params='', query='', fragment='')
    >>> urlparse(b'http://www.example.com/bytes')
    ParseResultBytes(scheme=b'http', netloc=b'www.example.com', path=b'/bytes', params=b'', query=b'', fragment=b'')

But, for consistency's sake, URI, Id and DottedName should be the same.
That makes the best choice for URI a native string.

Another more practical argument is that having URI be a "native string"
made the porting of zope.configuration to python 3 much easier. There
were a few nasty bugs when trying it with URI as bytes.

I have no strong argument for ASCII.

FWIW, here's the original discussion on porting zope.schema:
    https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2011-October/043540.html

> (Also, looks like we should
> promote the 'INativeString' interface to an API).

+1

> 
> 
> Tres.
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Brian Sutherland