> That's up to us. I don't know what the reason was for keeping the > 3.2.0 database around -- does anyone here recall ever using it? For > what?
It's needed for IDNA. The IDNA RFC requires that Unicode 3.2 is used for performing IDNA (in particular, for determining what a valid domain name is). The IDNA people consider it security-relevant that it is really the 3.2 database, and would probably consider it a serious security bug if newer Python versions suddenly started to use newer Unicode databases for IDNA. At some point, IDNA might get updated to a newer version of the Unicode spec; we can then drop 3.2 (and stick with whatever the RFC then specifies). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
