Lauri Alanko added the comment: The character set of EBCDIC is a superset of the character set of ASCII. In fact CP1047, the variant used on z/OS, has the same character set as Latin-1. Only the encoding is completely different.
As a non-ASCII platform, z/OS is certainly challenging for people used to modern conventions, and that is exactly why a familiar and easy-to-use tool like Python is so valuable there. As for viability, there are some obvious difficulties with Python's handling of source encodings, but as long as you restrict yourself to the ASCII _character set_ in your source code, the vast majority of things seem to work fine with my patch. There are more details in my mail to python-dev, which doesn't seem to have appeared yet. I'm not a subscriber, so it's probably pending moderation somewhere. (I hope "The list address accepts e-mail from non-members" is still correct information.) __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1298> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
