Great -- get ready to make your patch perfect! On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Atsuo Ishimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guido, > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Atsuo, >> >> I'm very close to accepting your PEP. I have a few questions: > > Great! > >> >> - The Rationale has a more elaborate (and perhaps slightly >> conflicting, regarding the status of ASCII space?) definition of our >> definition of non-printable than the Specification. Perhaps this could >> be merged? >> > > Yes, I'll merge them. > >> - I'm still not comfortable with making stdout default to >> backslashreplace. Stuff written to stdout might be consumed by another >> program that might misinterpret the \ escapes. Previously I thought I >> was okay with doing this only if stdout.isatty() returns True, but I >> think that would just add confusion of the kind "it works in >> interactive mode but not when redirecting to a file". I'm okay with >> apps who think they need this setting that explicitly, but not to >> having it be the default. (For stderr however I agree that >> backslashreplace is the right default.) > > Okay, we'll keep 'strict' as default error handler for stdout always, > then. I can live with it. > But, my $0.02, I expect this issue will be revisited after people > start to develop real applications with Python 3.x. > >> >> - What happens to Unicode characters that are "unassigned"? I assume >> there are many of those, especially outside the basic plane. Shouldn't >> we be conservative and convert these to \u or \U escapes as well? >> > > Unassigned characters are defined as 'Cn ' in the Unicode database and > they will be escaped. > > I'll update the PEP and the patch on Sunday. Thank you! >
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