mguin...@gmail.com writes: > There should be a safer abstraction to these two basic functions.
There is: TextIOBase.read, then treat it as an array of code units (NOT CHARACTERS!!) > More details in the issue: Not at all persuasive. I'm with Chris: you need to present the abstraction you want. One thing you don't seem to understand: Python does *not* know about characters natively. str is an array of *code units*. This is much better than the pre-PEP-393 situation (where the unicode type was UTF-16, nowadays except for PEP 383 non-decodable bytes there are no surrogates to worry about), but Python doesn't care if you use NFD, and there are characters that have no composed version (some are the kind of thing you see in @jwz's display name on Twitter, but some of them are characters that exist in national standards but not in Unicode NFC form, I believe). If code points are good enough for you, you need to specify that. -- I, too, gruntle. What about it? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ITJDGIE72WNWW7OW2ERL7Q4BBQO54RZN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
