On 6/6/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rauli Ruohonen writes: > > > Strings are internal to Python. This is a whole separate issue from > > normalization of source code or its parts (such as identifiers). > > Agreed. But please note that we're not talking about representation. > We're talking about the result of evaluating a comparison: > > if u"L\u00F6wis" == u"Lo\u0308wis": > print "Python is Unicode conforming in this respect." > else: > print "I guess it's time to start learning Ruby." > > I think it's reasonable to be astonished if Python doesn't at least > try to print "Python is Unicode conforming in this respect." for the > above snippet by default.
Alas, you will remain astonished for a long time, and you're welcome to try Ruby instead. I'm all for adding a way to do normalized string comparisons to the library. But I'm not about to change the == operator to apply normalization first. It would affect too much (e.g. hashing). -- --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
