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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Sep 8 22:54:43 CEST 2006

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

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. And unlike 2.2's True/False problem, it is an environmental feature, rather than a programmatic one.

Not sure what you mean by that; if you mean "thus existing applications cannot break": this is not true. In fact, it seems that some applications are extremely susceptible to the types of objects on sys.path. Some applications apparently know exactly what you can and cannot find on sys.path; changing that might break them.

Regards, Martin

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