On 3/26/20 2:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:30:15 -0500, Erik Janssen wrote:
>>
>> Today I noticed
>> https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/2020/03/24/python-for-z-enablement/
>> where IBM announces 'IBM intends to enable Python on z/OS together with the
>> open source community'. The whole announcement never mentions Rocket's port
>> of python that has long been available (and has often been referred to by
>> IBM in many documents). Is IBM intending to deliver their own port, or have
>> upstream support for z/os in the python base? Does anybody have more insight
>> into what direction IBM is taking with this statement?
>>
> Strange also in view of a position taken several years ago by
> the Python faction of the open source community:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue1298
>
> However, I understand van Rossum's role in Python is later
> diminished.
>
> Container?
the problem pointed by the issue above is related to charset.
python3 fixes the problem, by using utf8 internally, and reading stuff
from files as binary bytes (in a bytes sequence object)
I suspect this may have fixed the issues raised there.
Raph
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