Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 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.
1. PalmOS, at least the last time I was involved with it. Python on a Palm
is a very tight fit.
2. "GM862 Cellular Module with Python Interpreter"
http://tinyurl.com/jgxz
These may be dimishing markets as memory capacity increases and I wouldn't
argue adding compile flags for such at this late date, but if the flags are
already there, perhaps the slight inconvenience to Python-internal
developers is worth it.
Hey, perhaps dropping out Unicode support is not a big win - I just know it
is useful at times to have a collection of flags to drop out floating point,
complex arithmetic, language parsing and such for memory-constrained cases.
-Jeff
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