[Python-Dev] Unicode 5.1.0 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 22 17:05:05 CEST 2008

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

- In view of jumping to a new standard at this point, what I'd like to have is a comprehensive test suite for unicodedata in a similar sense to what happens with Decimal... It would be great to have from the Unicode Consortium a series of test cases (in Python, or in something we could process), to verify that we support Unicode properly.

Unicode conformance isn't specified in the same way as Decimal conformance. While there are certain algorithms that can be tested (e.g. normalization, encoding, decoding), much of the conformance requirements (AFAIK) are expressed in lots of words about providing certain facilities etc. I don't actually think putting lots of effort into this is well-spent; given the mechanical nature of the translation from the unicode database files into C code (see Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py) a bug in the translation is likely to result in either bad C code or a systematic error that is easily spotted.

- We always could have a beta4 if it's necessary...

No way.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

And another question: would it be hard for Google to maintain this separately until at least it's integrated to 3.1?

That's the plan.

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