[Python-Dev] Relaxing Unicode error handling (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jan 4 06:31:21 EST 2004

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

Is there any way to specify that implicit conversions raise an exception? Perhaps by setting the default encoding to "undefined".

Gosh, that sure would have made my last i18n project go faster, and I'd have had more confidence that I'd found all possible conversion issues.

I don't know whether Neil was actually aware of that feature: In site.py, if you uncomment the block

if 0: # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit # Unicode to string conversion. encoding = "undefined"

you get precisely that.

Regards, Martin

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