[Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog (original) (raw)

Tim Lesher tlesher at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 17:29:42 CEST 2014

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014, 09:33 R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:06:21 +1200, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 Sep 2014 10:18, "Jeff Allen" <ja.py at farowl.co.uk> wrote: > > 4. I think (with Antoine) if Jython supported PEP-383 byte smuggling, it > would have to do it the same way as CPython, as it is visible. It's not > impossible (I think), but is messy. Some are strongly against. > > It may be worth trying without it (i.e. treat "surrogateescape" as > equivalent to "strict" initially), and seeing how you go. The main purpose > of surrogateescape in CPython 3 is to recreate the "arbitrary 8-bit data > round trips work on POSIX" aspect of CPython 2, which doesn't apply in > exactly the same way on Jython. > > Compared to the 8-bit vs 16-bit str discrepancy that exists in Python 2, > "surrogateescape is equivalent to strict" seems like a relatively small > discrepancy in behaviour.

That would totally break the email package. It would of course be possible to rewrite email to not use surrogate escape, but it is a seriously non-trivial undertaking. --David

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