[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Dec 2 03:01:29 CET 2010

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

Furthermore, he provided good objective reason (excessive cost, to which I can also testify, in several different input methods for Japanese) why numbers simply would not be input that way.

What's left is copy/paste via the mouse.

For direct entry by an interactive user, yes. Why are some people in this discussion thinking only of direct entry by an interactive user?

Input to a program comes from various sources other than direct entry by the interactive user, as has been pointed out many times.

Please, give us just one more real use case that isn't "somebody might".

Input from an existing text file, as I said earlier. Or any other way of text data making its way into a Python program.

Direct entry at the console is a red herring.

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