On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > FWIW: I'm +1 on adding such a codec.
I'm undecided, and really don't feel strongly either way. > It makes working with XML data a lot easier: you simply don't have to > bother with the encoding of the XML data anymore and can just let the > codec figure out the details. The XML parser can then work directly > on the Unicode data. Which is fine if you want to write a new parser. I've no interest in that myself. > Whether it needs to be in C or not is another question (I would have > done this in Python since performance is not really an issue), but > since > the code is already written, why not use it ? The reason not to use C is the usual one: The implementation is more cross-implementation if it's written in Python. This makes it more useful with Jython, IronPython, and PyPy. That seems a pretty good reason to me. -Fred -- Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
