[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese) (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen@xemacs.org
13 Mar 2002 01:10:23 +0900

"Guido" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

Guido> Attaching codecs to streams is currently pretty painful
Guido> AFAICT (I've never tried it :-),

I've tried it exactly once and it worked out of the box, just like the docs said it would, for a trivial ISO 8859/1 -> UTF-8 recoder. It's just an additional argument in the open call. This API is a win, and can naturally be extended to internal streams (such as input()).

Guido> and it's possible that nothing needs to be done.

:-)

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