Thomas Breuel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:40, Curt Hagenlocher <c...@hagenlocher.org > <mailto:c...@hagenlocher.org>> wrote: > > IronPython will inherit whatever behavior Mono has implemented. The > Microsoft CLR defines the native string type as UTF-16 and all of the > managed APIs for things like file names and environmental variables > operate on UTF-16 strings -- there simply are no byte string APIs. > > > Yes. Now think about the implications. This means that adopting PEP > 383 will make IronPython and Jython running on UNIX intrinsically > incompatible with CPython running on UNIX, and there's no way to fix that.
*Not* adapting the PEP will also make CPython and IronPython incompatible, and there's no way to fix that. 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
