On 9/5/06, Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beyond all of that: It just seems wrong to me that I could send someone a > bunch of files and a Python program and their results processing them would > be different from mine, despite the fact that we run the same version of > Python on the same operating system.
And it seems just as wrong if Python doesn't do what the user expects. If I were a beginning Python user, I'd hate it if I had prepared a simple data file in vi or notepad and my Python program wouldn't read it right because Python's idea of encoding differs from my editor's. Sorry Paul, I appreciate your standards-driven perspective, but in this area I'd rather build in more flexibility than strictly needed, than too little. If it turns out that on a particular platform all files are in UTF-8, making Python *on that platform* always choose UTF-8 is simple enough. OTOH, if on a particular platform UTF-8 is *not* the norm, Python should not insist on using it anyway. We can remove this feature once everybody uses UTF-8. I don't believe we're there yet, and "it just seems wrong" doesn't count as proof. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
