Guido van Rossum added the comment:
I have no desire or time to continue this discussion. The ASCII
assumption will be ingrained as deeply or deeper in 3.0 than in 2.x,
just like 8-bit bytes and 2's complement. The computer industry has
chosen, and there just isn't any incentive to invent
Lauri Alanko added the comment:
Further comments on the port can be at:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-October/074991.html
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Lauri Alanko added the comment:
How do you measure importance? Z/OS is not important to many
people in the world, but to those to whom it is important, it is
_very_ important, in a very tangible way. It was certainly
important enough for someone to port Python to it. :)
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
FYI, I checked the moderation queue for python-dev and didn't find your
message. You might want to resend.
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
How do you measure importance? Z/OS is not important to many
people in the world, but to those to whom it is important, it is
_very_ important, in a very tangible way. It was certainly
important enough for someone to port Python to it. :)
But is it
Lauri Alanko added the comment:
The character set of EBCDIC is a superset of the character set of
ASCII. In fact CP1047, the variant used on z/OS, has the same
character set as Latin-1. Only the encoding is completely
different.
As a non-ASCII platform, z/OS is certainly challenging for people
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
How important is z/OS? I'm very skeptical of the viability of any OS
that uses an encoding that is not a superset of ASCII.
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nosy: +gvanrossum
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