On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:56:05 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
>Interesting. Python is great; we use a ton of it. I'm happy that Guido's
>original stupid (yes, I used that word) position that Python would never ...
>
For reference: <https://bugs.python.org/issue1298>
>support EBCDIC has been overridden. ("How important is z/OS? I'm very
>
Actually, I believe it hasn't "been overridden". Python is compiled with the
z/OS C/C++ Enhanced ASCII option, uses autoconversion, and operates
internally in UNICODE.
Autoconversion should be used more widely and should be extended to
support Classic data sets.
> ... skeptical of the viability of any OS that uses an encoding that is not a
>superset of ASCII", and he apparently at one point also said Python 3 would
>"never" support EBCDIC.)
-- gil
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