Hi, Le lundi 03 octobre 2005 à 20:37 +0200, Fredrik Lundh a écrit : > > If I have an unicode string containing legal characters greater than > > 0x7F, and I pass it to a function which converts it to str, the > > conversion fails. > > so? if it does that, it's not unicode safe. [...] > what's that has to do with > my argument (which is that you can safely mix ascii strings and unicode > strings, because that's how things were designed).
If that's how things were designed, then Python's entire standard library (not to mention third-party libraries) is not "unicode safe" - to quote your own words - since many functions may return 8-bit strings containing non-ascii characters. There lies the problem for many people, until the stdlib is fixed - or until the string types are changed. That's why you very regularly see people complaining about how conversions sometimes break their code in various ways. Anyway, I don't think we will reach an agreement here. We have different expectations w.r.t. to how the programming language may/should handle general text. I propose we end the discussion. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
