>> 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?).
Actually, that is not an issue: In Python 3, there is no data type for "ASCII string" anymore, so all __name__ attributes and __dict__ keys are Unicode strings - regardless of whether this PEP gets accepted or not (which it just did). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
