On 3/26/20 2:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:30:15 -0500, Erik Janssen wrote: >> >> Today I noticed >> https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/2020/03/24/python-for-z-enablement/ >> where IBM announces 'IBM intends to enable Python on z/OS together with the >> open source community'. The whole announcement never mentions Rocket's port >> of python that has long been available (and has often been referred to by >> IBM in many documents). Is IBM intending to deliver their own port, or have >> upstream support for z/os in the python base? Does anybody have more insight >> into what direction IBM is taking with this statement? >> > Strange also in view of a position taken several years ago by > the Python faction of the open source community: > https://bugs.python.org/issue1298 > > However, I understand van Rossum's role in Python is later > diminished. > > Container?
the problem pointed by the issue above is related to charset. python3 fixes the problem, by using utf8 internally, and reading stuff from files as binary bytes (in a bytes sequence object) I suspect this may have fixed the issues raised there. Raph > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
