[Python-Dev] Unicode Imports (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Sep 8 11:19:08 CEST 2006

Anthony Baxter wrote:

On Friday 08 September 2006 18:24, Steve Holden wrote:

As this can't be considered a bugfix (that I can see), I'd be against it being checked into 2.5. Are you suggesting that Python's inability to correctly handle Unicode path elements isn't a bug? Or simply that this inability isn't currently described in a bug report on Sourceforge? I'm suggesting that adding the ability to handle unicode paths is a new feature. That's certainly true.

If people actually want to see 2.5 final ever released, they're going to have to accept that "oh, but just this one more thing" is not going to fly.

We're well past beta1, where new features should have been added. At this point, we have to cut another release candidate. This is far too much to add during the release candidate stage. Right. I couldn't argue for putting this in to 2.5 - it would certainly represent unwarranted feature creep at the rc2 stage.

I agree it's a relatively large patch for a release candidate but if prudence suggests deferring it, it should be a definite for 2.5.1 and subsequent releases. Possibly. I remain unconvinced.

But it is a desirable, albeit new, feature, so I'm surprised that you don't appear to perceive it as such for a downstream release.

regards Steve

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