Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:
Sorry, I probably wasn't clear: the codecs interface is a direct interface to the Unicode codecs and thus has to work according to what Unicode defines. Your PR changes this to be non-compliant and does this for all codecs. That's a major backwards and Unicode incompatible change and I'm -1 on such a change for the stated reasons. If people want to have ASCII only line break handling, they should use the io module, which only uses the codecs and can apply different logic (as it does). Please note that many file formats where not defined for Unicode, and it's only natural that using Unicode codecs on them will result in some differences compared to the ASCII world. Line breaks are one of those differences, but there are plenty others as well, e.g. potentially breaking combining characters or bidi sections, different ideas about upper and lower case handling, different interpretations of control characters, etc. The approach to this has to be left with the applications dealing with these formats. The stdlib has to stick to standards and clear documentation. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue18291> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
