On 13.10.2016 01:06, Mikhail V wrote: > On 12 October 2016 at 23:48, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> The hex notation for \uXXXX is a standard also used in many other >> programming languages, it's also easier to parse, so I don't >> think we should change this default. > > In programming literature it is used often, but let me point out that > decimal is THE standard and is much much better standard > in sence of readability. And there is no solid reason to use 2 standards > at the same time.
I guess it's a matter of choosing the right standard for the right purpose. For \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX the intention was to be able to represent a Unicode code point using its standard Unicode ordinal representation and since the standard uses hex for this, it's quite natural to use the same here. >> Take e.g. >> >>>>> s = "\u123456" >>>>> s >> 'ሴ56' >> >> With decimal notation, it's not clear where to end parsing >> the digit notation. > > How it is not clear if the digit amount is fixed? Not very clear what > did you mean. Unicode code points have ordinals from the range [0, 1114111], so it's not clear where to stop parsing the decimal representation and continue to interpret the literal as regular string, since I suppose you did not intend everyone to have to write \u0000010 just to get a newline code point to avoid the ambiguity. PS: I'm not even talking about the breakage such a change would cause. This discussion is merely about the pointing out how things got to be how they are now. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Oct 13 2016) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
