On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > It would seem helpful if the stdlib could have some support for efficient > handling of Unicode characters in some representation. It would help > address the class of applications that does care.
I claim that we have insufficient understanding of their needs to put anything in the stdlib. Wait and see is a good strategy here. > Adding extra support for > Unicode character handling sooner rather than later could be an performance > boost to applications that do care about full character support, and I can > only see the numbers of such applications increasing over time. Such could > be built as a subtype of str, perhaps, but if done in Python, there would > likely be a significant performance hit when going from str to > "unicodeCharacterStr". Sounds like overengineering to me. The right time to add something to the stdlib is when a large number of apps *currently* need something, not when you expect that they might need it in the future. (There just are too many possible futures to plan for them all. YAGNI rules.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
