[Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 01:15:27 CEST 2014

On 25 Jun 2014 07:05, "Ethan Furman" <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 06/24/2014 12:54 PM, Ned Deily wrote:

Yes, we are committed to maintaining Python 2.7 for multiple years but that doesn't mean we have to fix every open issue or even most open issues. Any or all of the above costs may apply to any changes we make. For many of our users, the best maintenance policy for Python 2.7 would be the least change possible. +1 We need to keep 2.7 running, but we don't need to kill ourselves doing it. If a bug has been there for a while, the affected users are probably working around it by now. ;)

Aye, in this case, I'm in the "officially deprecate the feature" camp. Don't actively try to break it further, just slap a warning in the docs to say it is no longer a supported configuration.

In my own personal case, I not only wasn't aware that there was still an option to turn off the Unicode support, but I also wouldn't really class a build with it turned off as still being Python. As Jim noted, there are quite a lot of APIs that don't make sense if there's no Unicode type available.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Ethan

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