On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 28.06.2011 14:24, Terry Reedy wrote: >> I think a PEP is needed. > > Absolutely. And I hope the hypothetical PEP would be rejected in this form. > > We need to stop making incompatible changes to Python 3. We had the chance > and took it to break all kinds of stuff, some of it gratuitous, with 3.0 and > even 3.1. Now the users need a period of compatibility and stability (just > like the language moratorium provided for one aspect of Python).
+1 to everything Georg said. - nothing can change in 3.2 - perhaps provide a way for an application to switch the default behaviour between 'locale' and 'utf-8' in 3.3 - if this is done, also provide a way to explicitly request the 'locale' behaviour (likely via a locale dependent codec alias) - maybe start thinking about an actual transition to 'utf-8' as default in the 3.4/5 time frame 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
