On 11.01.2018 10:01, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:58 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> On 11.01.2018 01:22, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> On 11 January 2018 at 05:04, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>> For the stdlib, I think we should stick to standards and >>>> not go for spreading non-standard ones. >>>> >>>> So -1 on adding WHATWG encodings to the stdlib. >>> >>> We already support HTML5 in the standard library, and saying "We'll >>> accept WHATWG's definition of HTML, but not their associated text >>> encodings" seems like a strange place to draw a line when it comes to >>> standards support. >> >> There's a problem with these encodings: they are mostly meant >> for decoding (broken) data, but as soon as we have them in the stdlib, >> people will also start using them for encoding data, producing more >> corrupted data. >> >> Do you really things it's a good idea to support this natively >> in Python ? >> >> The other problem is that WHATWG considers its documents "living >> standards", i.e. they are subject to change and don't come with >> a version number (apart from a date). >> >> This makes sense when you look at their mostly decoding-only >> nature, but, again for encoding, creates an interoperability problem. > > Would it be viable to have them in the stdlib for decoding only? To > have them simply not work for encoding?
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