2010/12/2 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>> >>> Oh, about ICU: >>> >>>> > Actually, I remember you saying that locale should ideally be replaced >>>> > with a wrapper around the ICU library. >>>> >>>> By that, I stand - however, I have given up the hope that this will >>>> happen anytime soon. >>> >>> Perhaps this could be made a GSOC topic. >>> >> >> Incidentally, this may also address another Python's Achilles' heel: >> the timezone support. >> >> http://icu-project.org/download/icutzu.html > > I work with people who speak highly of ICU, so I want to encourage > work in this area. > > At the same time, I'm skeptical -- IIRC, ICU is a large amount of C++ > code. I don't know how easy it will be to integrate this into our > build processes for various platforms, nor how "Pythonic" the > resulting APIs will look to the experienced Python user.
There's a nice C-API. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com