I'm planning to build an external lib. This lib will exchange a lot of strings between the lib and the "core Python code" of applications.
I wish this lib to be modern, 100% unicode compliant. It will be developped for Python 2.7 and for Python 3. In an early phase, technically, it will be developed on Python 2.7 before Python 3, probably 3.2. Two options for the strings interface. a) Pure unicode, that means only type 'unicode' in Python 2.7 and only type 'str' in Python 3. Similar to the Python io module. b) Like a) plus ascii and utf-8 encoded type 'str' to keep some kind of retro compatibility. This lib will anyway work in a "unicode mode", so the ascii and the encoded utf-8 str's have to be converted into "unicode". I'm very comfortable with all this coding stuff and aware of the pros and cons of each solutions. My favourite solution is clearly on the a) side. Advices and comments are welcome. Thanks in advance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
