[Python-3000] PEP 3108 - String representation in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue May 6 20:47:49 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg writes:

This is all very nice, but if that means that the whole Unicode database has to be loaded every time the interpreter starts up

Ouch.

BTW, I'm sure it's possible to break down the above into a set of ranges and switch cases that are easy to test without having to lookup code points in the database. Even if you do end up using the database, it should only be imported if the repr() really does not need to lookup code points outside the Latin-1 range.

You mean, "really does need to look up", right?

Would it be too disgusting to have a simple range-based repr() as a builtin, and replace it with a lookup-based repr() defined in the Unicode database?

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