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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jun 22 01:23:28 CEST 2010

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:09:52 am P.J. Eby wrote:

However, if you promoted mixed-type operation results to unicode instead of ebytes, then you:

1) can't preserve data that doesn't have a 1:1 mapping to unicode,

Sounds like exactly the sort of thing the Unicode private codepoints were invented for, as Toshio suggests.

In any case, if there are use-cases for text that aren't solved by Unicode, and I'm not convinced that there are, Python doesn't need to solve them. At the very least, such a solution should start off as a third-party package to prove itself before being made a part of the standard library, let alone a built-in.

-- Steven D'Aprano

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