[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jan 13 01:08:46 CET 2014

Glenn Linderman writes:

the proposals to embed binary in Unicode by abusing Latin-1 encoding.

Those aren't "proposals", they are currently feasible techniques in Python 3 for some use cases.

The question is why infecting Python 3 with the byte/character confoundance virus is preferable to such techniques, especially if their (serious!) deficiencies are removed by creating a new type such as asciistr.

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