Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > That would be an improvement. The idea of the patches I posted > is to combine this with the existing surrogateescape mechanism, > which handles situations like this perfectly well.
The surrogateescape mechanism is a very hackish approach, and violates the principle that errors should never pass silently. However, it solves a real problem - people do run into the problem with file names every day. With this problem, I'd say "if it hurts, don't do it, then". ---------- title: socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain names -> socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain names _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
