[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Sun Jun 20 23:22:09 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:57:05AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Education is needed. When you search Google (or Bing, for that matter :-) for "python unicode" the first hit is http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode, which is highly detailed but probably too much information for the typical person faced with a UnicodeError exception traceback (that page is also focused on Python 2). What we need is a cookbook on how to deal with various common

Eep! That should be directed to http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html, the copy that's actually incorporated in the Python docs. I'll fix that immediately.

Regarding a smaller document for people who hit a UnicodeError exception: could we write a little Unicode FAQ for python.org?

--amk



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