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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Nov 28 21:43:11 CET 2010

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:24:37 -0500 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

While we have little choice but to follow UCD in defining str.isidentifier(), I think Python can promise users more stability in what it treats as space or as a digit in its builtins.

Well, if "unicode support" means "support the latest version of the Unicode standard", I'm not sure we have a choice. We can make exceptions, but that would only confuse users even more, wouldn't it?

For example, I don't think that supporting

>>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') 1234.56 is more important than to assure users that once their program accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is ASCII.

Why would they assume the text is ASCII?

Regards

Antoine.

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