[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Thu May 24 15:20:26 CEST 2007

--- "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

I'd make it more tedious and more flexible to relax the restriction, actually. "python" gives you the stdlib, ASCII-only restriction. "python -U TABLE" takes a mandatory argument, which is the table of allowed characters.

Now that the PEP has been accepted, maybe some more language could be added to it that addresses the concerns of folks who want to keep their code ASCII-only.

It seems that if Python, by default, restricts to ASCII, then you at least eliminate the most obvious objections. (You still have the indirect arguments about it contributing to less code written in English worldwide, etc.).

Then, for all the other classes of users (Dutch tax lawyer who still doesn't want Sanskrit, etc.), do you advocate having multiple convenient ways to specify their desired character set (command line flag, env setting, magic directive at top of file, etc.), or do you want the "one true way"?

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