[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython (original) (raw)

Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 14:37:08 CEST 2014

Hello,

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 22:20:04 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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problems caused by trusting the locale encoding to be correct, but the startup code will need non-trivial changes for that to happen - the C.UTF-8 locale may even become widespread before we get there).

... And until those golden times come, it would be nice if Python did not force its perfect world model, which unfortunately is not based on surrounding reality, and let users solve their encoding problems themselves - when they need, because again, one can go quite a long way without dealing with encodings at all. Whereas now Python3 forces users to deal with encoding almost universally, but forcing a particular for all strings (which is again, doesn't correspond to the state of surrounding reality). I already hear response that it's good that users taught to deal with encoding, that will make them write correct programs, but that's a bit far away from the original aim of making it write "correct" programs easy and pleasant. (And definition of "correct" vary.)

But all that is just an opinion.

Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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