Hello, On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:03:22 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
[] > > Why not support variable-width strings like CPython 3.4? > > That was my first recommendation, and in fact I started writing code > to implement parts of PEP 393, with a view to basically doing it the > same way in both Pythons. But discussion on the tracker issue showed a > certain amount of hostility toward the potential expansion of strings, > particularly in the worst-case example of appending a single SMP > character onto a long ASCII string. An alternative view is that the discussion on the tracker showed Python developers' mind-fixation on implementing something the way CPython does it. And I didn't yet go to that argument, but in the end, MicroPython does not try to rewrite CPython or compete with it. So, having few choices with pros and cons leading approximately to the tie among them, it's the least productive to make the same choice as CPython did. Even having "rule of thumb" of choosing not-a-CPython way would be more productive than having the same rule of thumb for blindly choosing CPython way. (Of course, actually it should be technical discussion based on the target requirements, like we hopefully did, with strong arguments against using something else but the de-facto standard transfer encoding for Unicode). > > ChrisA -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
