[Python-Dev] Bytes path related questions for Guido (original) (raw)

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Aug 26 13:31:19 CEST 2014

On 2014-08-26 03:11, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Nick Coghlan writes:

> "purgesurrogateescapes" was the other term that occurred to me. "purge" suggests removal, not replacement. That may be useful too. neutralizesurrogateescapes(s, remove=False, replacement='\uFFFD') How about:

 replace_surrogate_escapes(s, replacement='\uFFFD')

If you want them removed, just pass an empty string as the replacement.

maybe? (Of course the remove argument is feature creep, so I'm only about +0.5 myself. And the name is long, but I can't think of any better synonyms for "make safe" in English right now).

> Either way, my use case is to filter them out when I don't want to > pass them along to other software, but would prefer the Unicode > replacement character to the ASCII question mark created by using the > "replace" filter when encoding. I think it would be preferable to be unicodely correct here by default, since this is a str -> str function.

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