[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions). (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Mon Oct 3 16:51:38 CEST 2005

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Michael Hudson wrote:

Martin Blais <blais at furius.ca> writes:

What if we could completely disable the implicit conversions between unicode and str? In other words, if you would ALWAYS be forced to call either .encode() or .decode() to convert between one and the other... wouldn't that help a lot deal with that issue? I don't know. I've made one or two apps safe against this and it's mostly just annoying. How hard would that be to implement? import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('undefined') You shouldn't post tricks like these :-) The correct way to change the default encoding is by providing a sitecustomize.py module which then call the sys.setdefaultencoding("undefined").

This is a much more evil trick IMO, as it affects all Python code, rather than a single program.

I would argue that it's evil to change the default encoding in the first place, except in this case to disable implicit encoding or decoding.

Jim

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