[Python-Dev] ICU (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Dec 2 18:03:57 CET 2010

2010/12/2 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Oh, about ICU:

> Actually, I remember you saying that locale should ideally be replaced > with a wrapper around the ICU library.

By that, I stand - however, I have given up the hope that this will happen anytime soon. Perhaps this could be made a GSOC topic. Incidentally, this may also address another Python's Achilles' heel: the timezone support. http://icu-project.org/download/icutzu.html I work with people who speak highly of ICU, so I want to encourage work in this area. At the same time, I'm skeptical -- IIRC, ICU is a large amount of C++ code. I don't know how easy it will be to integrate this into our build processes for various platforms, nor how "Pythonic" the resulting APIs will look to the experienced Python user.

There's a nice C-API.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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