[email protected] wrote:
The ability to change the default encoding is a misfeature. There's
essentially no way to write correct Python code in the presence of this
feature.
How so? If every single piece of text in your project is encoded in a
superset of ascii (such as utf-8), why would this be a problem?
Even if you were evil/stupid and mixed encodings, surely all you'd get
is different unicode errors or mayvbe the odd strange character during
display?
It may be a major task, but the best thing you can do is find each str
and unicode operation in the software you're working with and make them
correct with respect to your inputs and outputs. Flipping a giant
switch for the entire process is just going to change which things are
wrong.
Well, flipping that giant switch has worked in production for the past 5
years, so I'm afraid I'll respectfully disagree. I'd suspect the
pragmatics of real world software are with that function even exists,
and it's extremely useful when used correctly...
Chris
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Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting
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