> To reiterate, I am not advocating for any change. I > simply want to understand if there is a good reason > for limiting the use of unchr/ord on narrow builds to > a subset of the unicode characters that Python otherwise > supports. So far, it seems not and that unichr/ord > is a poster child for "purity beats practicality".
I think that's actually the case. I went back to the discussions, and found that early 2.2 alpha releases did return two-byte strings from unichr, and that this was changed because Marc-Andre Lemburg insisted. Here are a few relevant messages from the archives (search for unichr) http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-June/015649.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/015662.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016110.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016153.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016155.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016186.html Eventually, in r28142, MAL changed it to give it its current state. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
