Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 8/10/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd suggest that we still inform the programmers of the problem >> by issuing a warning (which they can then silence at will), >> maybe a new PyExc_UnicodeWarning. > > Hmm... Here's an idea... How about we change unicode-vs-str __eq__ to > issue a warning (and return False) instead of raising > UnicodeException? That won't break much code (it's unlikely that > people *depend* on this exception since it's generally a symptom of > insane mixing of str and unicode). Then no further changes to > dictobject.c are necessary (except fixing that one misleading > comment).
Good idea. >> Note that these exceptions help programmers making their applications >> Unicode compatible, so silencing them completely would remove the >> possibility to detect the case of mixing strings and Unicode as >> keys in a dictionary. > > A warning would arguably have the same helping effect. (I suspect > actually that we would have used warnings all along except we didn't > have the warning framework when unicode was first introduced.) Probably, yes. These days, I believe that we should have not gone for the string-Unicode integration magic at all and instead done the same of what's planned for Py3k. Sometimes a clean cut is better than trying to muddle along. >> BTW, in Py3k, this case would not trigger at all, since all text >> would be Unicode and bytes wouldn't be comparable to Unicode >> anyway. However, that's a different discussion which we can have >> after Python 2.5 is out the door. > > Which is why I said I would have gladly waited until Py3k to fix this. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 10 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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
