[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 19:09:58 CET 2010
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:22 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
The former ensures that literals in code are always readable; the later allows users to enter numbers in their own number system. How could that be a bad thing? It's YAGNI, feature bloat. It gives the illusion of supporting something that actually isn't supported very well (namely, parsing local number strings). I claim that there is no meaningful application of this feature.
Speaking of YAGNI, does anyone want to defend
complex('١٢٣٤.٥٦j') 1234.56j
?
Especially given that we reject complex('1234.56i'):
http://bugs.python.org/issue10562
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