Michael Hudson wrote:
> Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>What if we could completely disable the implicit conversions between
>>unicode and str? In other words, if you would ALWAYS be forced to
>>call either .encode() or .decode() to convert between one and the
>>other... wouldn't that help a lot deal with that issue?
>
>
> I don't know. I've made one or two apps safe against this and it's
> mostly just annoying.
>
>>How hard would that be to implement?
>
> import sys
> reload(sys)
> sys.setdefaultencoding('undefined')
You shouldn't post tricks like these :-)
The correct way to change the default encoding is by
providing a sitecustomize.py module which then call the
sys.setdefaultencoding("undefined").
Note that the codec "undefined" was added for just this
reason.
>>Would it break a lot of code? Would some people want that? (I know
>>I would, at least for some of my code.) It seems to me that this
>>would make the code more explicit and force the programmer to become
>>more aware of those conversions. Any opinions welcome.
>
> I'm not sure it's a sensible default.
Me neither, especially since this would make it impossible
to write polymorphic code - e.g. ', '.join(list) wouldn't
work anymore if list contains Unicode; dito for u', '.join(list)
with list containing a string.
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