[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Dec 3 05:58:55 CET 2010

Antoine Pitrou writes:

The legacy format argument looks like a red herring to me. When converting from a format to another it is the programmer's job to his/her job right.

Uhmmmmmm, the argument for this "feature" proposed by several people is that Python's numeric constructors do it (right) so that the programmer doesn't have to.

If Python doesn't do it right, why should Python do it at all?

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