On 7/11/07, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a very remedial question about how to fix test failures due to > the side effects of string-unicode integration. > > The xmlrpc library uses explicit encoding to encode XML tag payloads > to (almost always) utf8. Tag literals are not encoded. > > What would be the best way to mimic this behavior under the new > regime? Just use unicode everywhere and encode the entire XML body > to utf-8 at the end? Or deal explicitly in bytes everywhere? Or..?
The correct approach would be to use Unicode (i.e., str) everywhere and encode to UTF-8 at the end. If that's too hard something's wrong with the philosophy of using Unicode everywhere... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
