On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having all encodings accessible in a str method only promotes a > programming style where bytes objects can contain differently encoded > strings in different parts of the program. Instead, well-written > programs should decode bytes on input, do all processing with str type > and decode on output. When strings need to be passed to char* C APIs, > they should be encoded in UTF-8. Many C APIs originally designed for > ASCII actually produce meaningful results when given UTF-8 bytes. > (Supporting such usage was one of the design goals of UTF-8.)
This world sounds nice, but it isn't the one that exists right now. Practicality beats purity and all that :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
