Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> haypocalc.com> writes: > > It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use > unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use > unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS.
I think both possibilities should be available on all OSes, so as to make it easier to write cross-platform code. Having to switch being bytes and unicode depending on the OS means developers will have to deal with encoding issues themselves, which is suboptimal from a language usability's point of view. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
