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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Jan 5 10:06:50 EST 2004 

>> I'd like to add a static property unicode.errorhandling, ...
>> What do you think?

Guido> This is a global default, right?  Seems to work for the socket
Guido> timeout; I think the case for a global default is similar.

Not so fast, pardner. Note that the socket module's timeout would be most beneficial to users of higher level modules (urllib[2]?, httplib, ftplib, etc), not directly by programmers. To the best of my knowledge, none of these modules have been adapted to this new feature yet, so I think it's still a bit premature extrapolate from socket.defaulttimeout to unicode.errorhandling. Also, as Phillip Eby pointed out, a UnicodeError generally results from an error in my code, not an intractable problem. (That's my experience, anyway.)

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