[Python-Dev] --disable-unicode (Tests and unicode) (original) (raw)
M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Oct 3 13:49:20 CEST 2005
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Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Whether we think it should be supported depends on who "we" is, as with all these minor features: some think it is a waste of time, some think it should be supported if reasonably possible, and some think this a conditio sine qua non. It certainly isn't a release-critical feature. Correct. I'll see if I have the time.
Is the added complexity needed to support not having Unicode support compiled into Python really worth it ?
I know that Martin introduced this feature a long time ago, so he will have had a reason for it.
Today, I think the situation has changed: computers have more memory, are faster and the need to integrate (e.g. via XML) is stronger than ever - and maybe we should consider removing the option to get a cleaner code base with fewer #ifdefs and SyntaxErrors from the standard lib.
What do you think ?
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