-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Hagen Fürstenau wrote:
> Is it too unreasonable to keep the byte strings we get from the OS as > byte strings in Python (since we're not sure about their encoding) and > offer functions for getting strings? > > sys.argv could be of type bytes and sys.arguments (or whatever) > could be > a function taking an encoding parameter (which defaults to UTF-8) and > returning strings. > > Of course that's backwards incompatible and I'm not sure if it's too > late for something like this now. It might be reasonable and even necessary, but I suspect usability will suffer. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRupxzHEjvBPtnXfVAQJ1owP+OBzC2UfeU4rio8nQJgYHl33xZfsAmHkQ Iv8188QzbCuypWQF/Zwr6i6yu+Kt64b0amDoYKI/VdnTceeC3u5ejSh66JocyP2X SmNJYrt6aikFJTgs5nqAgAKQhcXfPNZh45tg/ZVsnpOro6juZTSgs+XO3b3g16VD VSs//yDdL64= =nBLI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
