On 2/19/06, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Quoting Neal Norwitz] > > I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure > > if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without > > unicode. Ask this on c.l.p too. > > Such a switch quite likely is useful to those creating Python interpreters > for small hand-held devices, where space is at a premium. I would hesitate > to remove switches to drop features in general, for that reason. > > Although I have played with reducing the footprint of Python, I am not > currently doing so. I could never get the footprint down sufficiently to > make it usable, unfortunately. But I would like to see the Python > developers maintain an awareness of memory consumption and not assume that > Python is always run on modern fully-loaded desktops. We are seeing > increasing use of Python in embedded systems these days.
Do you know of any embedded platform that doesn't have unicode support as a requirement? Python runs fine on Nokia phones running Symbian, where *everything* is a Unicode string. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
