[Python-Dev] 2.5 status (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 09:28:39 CEST 2006

On 9/5/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> [MAL] > The proper fix would be to introduce a tpunicode slot and let > this decide what to do, ie. call .unicode() methods on instances > and use the .name on classes. That was my bug reaction and what I said on the bug report. Kind of surprised one doesn't already exist. > I think this would be the right way to go for Python 2.6. For > Python 2.5, just dropping this .unicode method on exceptions > is probably the right thing to do. Neal, do you want to rip it out or should I?

Is removing unicode backwards compatible with 2.4 for both instances and exception classes?

Does everyone agree this is the proper approach? I'm not familiar with this code. Brett, if everyone agrees (ie, remains silent), please fix this and add tests and a NEWS entry.

Everyone should be looking for incompatibilities with previous versions. Exceptions are new and deserve special attention. Lots of the internals of strings (8-bit and unicode) and the struct module changed and should be tested thoroughly. I'm sure there are a bunch of other things I'm not remembering. The compiler is also an obvious target to verify your code still works.

We're stuck with anything that makes it into 2.5, so now is the time to fix these problems.

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