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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Dec 3 13:51:06 CET 2010

Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 13:58 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :

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.

As far as I understand, Alexander was talking about a legacy pre-unicode text format. We don't have to support this.

Regards

Antoine.

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