[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 30 14:25:28 CEST 2009

Why didn't you point to that discussion from the PEP 383? And why didn't you point to Kowalczyk's message on encodings in Mono, Java, etc. from the PEP?

Because I assumed that readers of the PEP would know (and I'm sure many of them do - this has been really discussed over and over again).

Under the set of constraints that Guido imposes, plus the requirement that round-trip works for illegal encodings, there is no other solution than PEP 383.

Well, there actually is an alternative: expose byte-oriented interfaces in parallel with the string-oriented ones. In the rationale, the PEP explains why I consider this the worse choice.

Regards, Martin

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