[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3 (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Feb 27 23:02:00 CET 2012

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:10:25 -0500, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 21:07 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > On 27 February 2012 20:39, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote: > > Note that u'' literals are sort of the tip of the iceberg here; > > supporting them will obviously not make development under the subset an > > order of magnitude less sucky, just a tiny little bit less sucky. There > > are other extremely annoying things, like str(bytes) returning the repr > > of a bytestring on Python 3. That's almost as irritating as the absence > > of u'' literals, but we have to evaluate one thing at a time. > > So. Am I misunderstanding here, or are you suggesting that this > particular PEP doesn't help you much, but if it's accepted, it > represents "the thin end of the wedge" for a series of subsequent PEPs > suggesting fixes for a number of other "extremely annoying things"...? > > I'm sure that's not what you meant, but it's certainly what it sounded > like to me!

I'm way too lazy. The political wrangling is just too draining (especially over something so trivial). But I will definitely support other proposals that make it easier to straddle, sure.

"tip of the iceberg", eh? Or the nose of the camel in the tent.

This pushes me in the direction of a -1 vote.

--David

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