Can we provide a convenience API (or even a few lines of code one could copy+paste) that determines if a particular 8-bit string should have max-char equal to 127 or 255? I can easily imagine a number of use cases where this would come in handy (e.g. a list of strings produced by translation, or strings returned in Latin-1 by some other non-Python C-level API) -- and let's not get into a debate about whether UTF-8 wouldn't be better, I can also easily imagine legacy APIs where that isn't (yet) an option.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:10:03 +0000 > Phil Thompson <p...@riverbankcomputing.com> wrote: > > > > Why is a Latin-1 string considered inconsistent just because it doesn't > > happen to contain any characters in the range 128-255? > > Because as Victor said, it allows for some optimization shortcuts (e.g. > a non-ASCII latin1 string cannot be equal to an ASCII string - no need > for a memcmp). > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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