[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 12:56:51 CEST 2009


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

I'm proposing the following PEP for inclusion into Python 3.1. Please comment.

That seems like a much nicer solution than having parallel bytes/Unicode APIs everywhere.

When the locale encoding is UTF-8, would UTF-8b also be used for the command line decoding and environment variable encoding/decoding? (the PEP currently only states that the encoding switch will be done for the file system encoding - it is silent regarding the other two system interfaces).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list