[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 30 00:37:54 CET 2006


Travis E. Oliphant wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Travis E. Oliphant schrieb:

Is it the intent of this PEP to support such data structures, and allow the user to fill in a Unicode object, and then the processing is automatic?

No, the point of the data-format object is to communicate information about data-formats not to encode or decode anything.

Well, there's still the issue of how much detail you want to be able to convey, so I think the question is valid. Is the encoding of a Unicode string something we want to be able to communicate via this mechanism, or is that outside its scope?

-- Greg



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