On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I'm guessing that one of these encoding names is recognized by the C > code while the other one takes the slow path via the aliasing code.
This is absolutely right. In fact I am going to propose adding strcmp(lower, "latin1") to the following test in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(): else if ((strcmp(lower, "latin-1") == 0) || (strcmp(lower, "iso-8859-1") == 0)) return PyUnicode_EncodeLatin1(... I'll open a separate issue for that. In Python's own stdlib and tests "latin1" is a more common spelling than "latin-1", so it makes sense to optimize it. _______________________________________________ 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