[Python-Dev] Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP292:SimpleStringSubstitutions (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Sep 5 10:36:51 CEST 2004

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

There seems to be a strong "just live with it" argument but no advantages are offered other than it matching your personal approach to text handling. Why force it when you don't have to. At least three of your users (me, Aahz, and Fred) do not want unicode output when we have str inputs.

one of which wrote the original unicode implementation, and the mixed-type regular expression engine used to implement templates, and a very popular XML library that successfully uses mixed-type text to handle text faster and using less memory than all other Python XML libraries.

I've shown over and over again that Unicode-aware text handling in Python doesn't have to be slow and bloated; I'd prefer if we kept it that way.

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