[Python-Dev] My work on Python3 and non-ascii paths is done (original) (raw)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 21:14:55 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:00:40PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Oct 20, 2010, at 02:11 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

>I plan to fix Python documentation: specify the encoding used to decode all >byte string arguments of the C API. I already wrote a draft patch: issue >#9738. This lack of documentation was a big problem for me, because I had to >follow the function calls to get the encoding. This will be truly excellent!

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks. I think you've learned a huge amount of good information that's difficult to find, so writing it up in a more permanent and easy to find location will really help future Python developers! One further thing I'd be interested in is if you could document any best practices from this experience. Things like, "surrogateescape is a good/bad default in these cases", When is parallel functions for bytes and str better than a single polymorphic function? That way when other modules are added to the stdlib, things can be more consistent.

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