Martin v. Löwis schrieb: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> It should be noted that I once started to convert the import machinery >> to be fully unicode aware. As far as I can tell, a *lot* has to be changed >> to make this work. > > Is that code available somewhere still? Does it still work?
Available as patch 1093253, I have not tried if it stil works > >> I started with refactoring Python/import.c, but nobody responded to the >> question >> whether such a refactoring patch would be accepted or not. > > I would like to see minimal changes only. I don't see why massive > refactoring would be necessary: the structure of the code should > persist - only the data types should change from char* to PyObject*. > Calls like stat() and open() should be generalized to accept > PyObject*, and otherwise keep their interface. To be really useful, wide char versions of other things must also be made available: command line arguments, environment variables (PYTHONPATH), and maybe other stuff. Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
