Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-11 Thread Jeff Allen
On 12/09/2014 04:28, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Jeff Allen writes: > A welcome article. One correction should be made, I believe: the area of > code point space used for the smuggling of bytes under PEP-383 is not a > "Unicode Private Use Area", but a portion of the trailing surrogate >

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jeff Allen writes: > A welcome article. One correction should be made, I believe: the area of > code point space used for the smuggling of bytes under PEP-383 is not a > "Unicode Private Use Area", but a portion of the trailing surrogate > range. Nice catch. Note that the surrogate range

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for 3.4.2

2014-09-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 08:20:52 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 9 Sep 2014 04:00, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: > > > > > >This would need to be updated first, once it *did* take such an argument, > > >this would be accomplished by: > > > > > >context = ssl.create_default_context() > > >context.verify_mode =

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for 3.4.2

2014-09-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 10:44:51 -0700 Alex Gaynor wrote: > *Shifts uncomfortably* it looks like presently there's not a good way to > change anything about the SSL configuration for urllib.request.urlopen. It > does not take a `context` argument, as the http.client API does: > https://docs.python.org/

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-11 Thread Jeff Allen
A welcome article. One correction should be made, I believe: the area of code point space used for the smuggling of bytes under PEP-383 is not a "Unicode Private Use Area", but a portion of the trailing surrogate range. This is a code violation, which I imagine is why "surrogateescape" is an er