Istvan Albert wrote: > On May 17, 9:07 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> up. I interviewed about 20 programmers (none of them Python users), and >> most took the position "I might not use it myself, but it surely >> can't hurt having it, and there surely are people who would use it". > > Typically when you ask people about esoteric features that seemingly > don't affect them but might be useful to someone, the majority will > say yes. Its simply common courtesy, its is not like they have to do > anything. > > At the same time it takes some mental effort to analyze and understand > all the implications of a feature, and without taking that effort > "something" will always beat "nothing". > Indeed. For example, getattr() and friends now have to accept Unicode arguments, and presumably to canonicalize correctly to avoid errors, and treat equivalent Unicode and ASCII names as the same (question: if two strings compare equal, do they refer to the same name in a namespace?).
> After the first time that your programmer friends need fix a trivial > bug in a piece of code that does not display correctly in the terminal > I can assure you that their mellow acceptance will turn to something > entirely different. > And pretty quickly, too. If anyone but Martin were the author of the PEP I'd have serious doubts, but if he thinks it's worth proposing there's at least a chance that it will eventually be implemented. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden ------------------ Asciimercial --------------------- Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag your way to fame!! holdenweb.blogspot.com squidoo.com/pythonology tagged items: del.icio.us/steve.holden/python All these services currently offer free registration! -------------- Thank You for Reading ---------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list