[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation forPEP 292:SimpleStringSubstitutions (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Sep 6 19:42:12 CEST 2004

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

You always have to take both into account. I was just saying that 8-bit strings don't buy you much in terms of performance over Unicode these days, so the only argument against using Unicode would be doubled memory usage.

Only if one sticks with the 2-byte Unicode implementation; you can compile Python with 4-byte Unicode (and I seem to recall that at least one standard distribution does exactly that).

Of course, this is a rather mild argument given the problems you face when trying to localize applications - which I see as the main use case for templates.

If I18N is intended to be the primary/only use case of templates, then the PEP needs to be updated. It would also explain some of the disagreement about the implementation.

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