[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/email/test test_email_codecs.py, 1.4, 1.5 (original) (raw)

Hye-Shik Chang perky at i18n.org
Sun Jan 18 10:26:16 EST 2004

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:56:51PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Anthony Baxter wrote: >If it can be shown that this is a pure win (that is, it improves code >for 2.3.4, but is both backwards and forwards compatible, then I don't >mind. I do mind if we end up with the horror of 2.2.2's not-really- >booleans, which has resulted in FAR FAR too much code of the form: > >try: > True, False >except: > True, False = 1, 0

It depends on the usage. If applications just do foo.encode("some-cjk-encoding") then all will work fine. However, it may be that applications do try: codecs.lookup("some-cjk-encoding") except LookupError: try: import japanese japanese.registeraliases() except ImportError: pass

This usage is useful only for -S mode. The recent Asian codecs register its aliases by their respective .pth. So, backporting CJK codecs won't let Japanese developers code in this way. If there's a man who need real JapaneseCodecs not CJK codecs, they can use it by installing JapaneseCodecs package as they've been done.

Hye-Shik

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