Curt Hagenlocher wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Curt Hagenlocher <curt <at> hagenlocher.org> writes: >>> No, but it also has to interact with filesystems of possibly invalid >>> or indeterminate encodings. What does java.io do? >> My point was that Python doesn't have to interact with the Java IO libraries, >> while it has to interact with the Unix and Windows IO APIs. > > Of course. But the Java IO libraries have to interact with the Unix > and Windows IO APIs as well. It might be interesting to know how they > handle similar situations.
See the following email for a summary of existing practice (as of 2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/unic...@unicode.org/msg27352.html -Scott -- Scott Dial sc...@scottdial.com scod...@cs.indiana.edu _______________________________________________ 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