On Oct 23, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Jason Orendorff wrote: > -1 on decoding implicitly "as needed". This causes decoding to happen > late, in unpredictable places. Decodes can fail; they should happen > as early and as close to the data source as possible.
That's not necessarily true... Some codecs can't fail, like latin1. I think the main use case for this is to speed up usage of text in these sorts of formats anyway. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
