[Python-ideas] changing sys.stdout encoding (original) (raw)
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 08:27:36 CEST 2012
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On 7 June 2012 03:34, Rurpy <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
It is a minor issue but the end result of experiences like this, although infrequent, is often "WTF, why is this simple and reasonable thing so hard to do?". And after a few times some programmers will start to wonder if maybe Python is not really an industrial-strength language -- one that they can be effective all the time, even when the problem falls outside the 95% demographic. (And I am not talking about things totally out of python's scope like high performance computing or systems programming.)
One suggestion, which would probably shed some light on whether this should be viewed as something "simple and reasonable", would be to do some research on how the same task would be achieved in other languages. I have no experience to contribute but my intuition says that this could well be hard on other languages too. Would you be willing to do some web searches to look for solutions in (say) Java, or C#, or Ruby? In theory, it shouldn't take long (as otherwise you can conclude that the solution is obscure to the same extent that it is with Python).
Even better, if those other languages do have a simple solution, it may suggest an approach that would be appropriate for Python.
Paul.
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