On Oct 12, 2016 4:33 PM, "Mikhail V" <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > *snip* > > PROPOSAL: > 1. Remove all hex notation from printing functions, typing, > documention. > So for printing functions leave the hex as an "option", > for example for those who feel the need for hex representation, > which is strange IMO. > 2. Replace it with decimal notation, in this case e.g: > > u'\u0430\u0431\u0432.txt' becomes > u'\u1072\u1073\u1074.txt' > > and similarly for other cases where raw bytes must be printed/inputed > So to summarize: make the decimal notation standard for all cases. > I am not going to go deeper, such as what digit amount (leading zeros) > to use, since it's quite secondary decision. >
If decimal notation isn't used for parsing, only for printing, it would be confusing as heck, but using it for both would break a lot of code in subtle ways (the worst kind of code breakage). > MOTIVATION: > 1. Hex notation is hardly readable. It was not designed with readability > in mind, so for reading it is not appropriate system, at least with the > current character set, which is a mix of digits and letters (curious who > was that wize person who invented such a set?). The Unicode standard. I agree that hex is hard to read, but the standard uses it to refer to the code points. It's great to be able to google code points and find the characters easily, and switching to decimal would screw it up. And I've never seen someone *need* to figure out the decimal version from the hex before. It's far more likely to google the hex #. TL;DR: I think this change would induce a LOT of short-term issues, despite it being up in the air if there's any long-term gain. So -1 from me. > 2. Mixing of two notations (hex and decimal) is a _very_ bad idea, > I hope no need to explain why. > Indeed, you don't. :) > So that's it, in short. > Feel free to discuss and comment. > > Regards, > Mikhail > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Ryan (ライアン) [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong. http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
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