On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum writes:
>
> > Given that the claim "Python 2 doesn't support Unicode filenames"
> > is factually incorrect (in Python 2.7, most filesystem calls in
> > fact do support Unicode, at least on some platforms),
>
> I
> Guido van Rossum writes:
> Given that the claim "Python 2 doesn't support Unicode filenames"
> is factually incorrect (in Python 2.7, most filesystem calls in
> fact do support Unicode, at least on some platforms),
I don't understand what "support Unicode" means. Just that
with ope
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> AFACT, in that message Victor was only talking about allowing Unicode
>> filenames.
>>
> ...
>
>> Finally, in most places Python 2.7 *does* handle Unicode filenames just
>> fine.
>
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> AFACT, in that message Victor was only talking about allowing Unicode
> filenames.
>
...
> Finally, in most places Python 2.7 *does* handle Unicode filenames just
> fine.
>
I'm a bit confused. In this example:
http://bugs.python.org/iss
03.03.14 02:02, Terry Reedy написав(ла):
On 3/2/2014 4:23 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
02.03.14 22:01, Terry Reedy написав(ла):
Is this a programmer error for passing unicode instead of string, or a
library error for not accepting unicode?
Is changing 'isinstance(x, str)' in the library (with wh
AFACT, in that message Victor was only talking about allowing Unicode
filenames.
Making everything polymorphic is clearly pulling on the thread that will
unravel the entire sweater.
But... The start of this thread was about changing a few occurrences of
isinstance(..., str) to use basestring, and
Terry Reedy writes:
> On 3/2/2014 4:23 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> > Patches which add support for unicode strings were accepted for one
> > issues (e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue19099) and rejected for other
> > issues (e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue20014 and
> > http://bugs.python.o
On 3 March 2014 10:02, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/2/2014 4:23 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>>
>> 02.03.14 22:01, Terry Reedy написав(ла):
>>>
>>> Is this a programmer error for passing unicode instead of string, or a
>>> library error for not accepting unicode?
>>> Is changing 'isinstance(x, str)' i
On 3/2/2014 4:23 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
02.03.14 22:01, Terry Reedy написав(ла):
Is this a programmer error for passing unicode instead of string, or a
library error for not accepting unicode?
Is changing 'isinstance(x, str)' in the library (with whatever other
changes are needed) a bugfix
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> Patches which add support for unicode strings were accepted for one issues
> (e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue19099) and rejected for other issues (e.g.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue20014 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20015).
See also
02.03.14 22:01, Terry Reedy написав(ла):
Is this a programmer error for passing unicode instead of string, or a
library error for not accepting unicode?
Is changing 'isinstance(x, str)' in the library (with whatever other
changes are needed) a bugfix to be pushed or a prohibited API expansion?
On 3/2/2014 3:12 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
It looks to me like a defect in the library (*), and you are making a
reasonable argument that we should fix it in 2.7 to help people be more
prepared for the transition to Python 3.
(*) As Antoine points out, pretty much the only time where it's not
It looks to me like a defect in the library (*), and you are making a
reasonable argument that we should fix it in 2.7 to help people be more
prepared for the transition to Python 3.
(*) As Antoine points out, pretty much the only time where it's not a good
idea to switch from str to basestring is
On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:01:01 -0500
Terry Reedy wrote:
> Suppose a 2.7 standard library function is documented as taking a
> 'string' argument, such as these examples from the turtle module.
>
> pencolor(colorstring)
> Set pencolor to colorstring, which is a Tk color specification
> string,
Suppose a 2.7 standard library function is documented as taking a
'string' argument, such as these examples from the turtle module.
pencolor(colorstring)
Set pencolor to colorstring, which is a Tk color specification
string, such as "red", "yellow", or "#33cc8c".
turtle.shape(name=None)
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