On 14 Sep 2014 01:33, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:06:21 +1200, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 13 Sep 2014 10:18, "Jeff Allen" <ja...@farowl.co.uk> wrote: > > > 4. I think (with Antoine) if Jython supported PEP-383 byte smuggling, it > > would have to do it the same way as CPython, as it is visible. It's not > > impossible (I think), but is messy. Some are strongly against. > > > > It may be worth trying *without* it (i.e. treat "surrogateescape" as > > equivalent to "strict" initially), and seeing how you go. The main purpose > > of surrogateescape in CPython 3 is to recreate the "arbitrary 8-bit data > > round trips work on POSIX" aspect of CPython 2, which doesn't apply in > > exactly the same way on Jython. > > > > Compared to the 8-bit vs 16-bit str discrepancy that exists in Python 2, > > "surrogateescape is equivalent to strict" seems like a relatively small > > discrepancy in behaviour. > > That would totally break the email package. > > It would of course be possible to rewrite email to not use surrogate > escape, but it is a seriously non-trivial undertaking.
That does indeed make for a compelling use case :) Cheers, Nick. > > --David > _______________________________________________ > 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/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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