Anne Archibald wrote: >>> I don't think it makes sense to handle format strings in Unicode >>> internally -- they should always be coerced to bytes. >> This should be fine -- we control what is a valid format string, and >> thus they can always be ASCII-safe. > > I have to disagree. Why should we force the user to use bytes?
One of us mis-understood that -- I THINK the idea was that internally numpy would use bytes (for easy conversion to/from char*), but they would get converted, so the use could pass in unicode strings (or bytes). I guess the questions remains as to what you'd get when you printed a format string. > Keep in mind that "coercing" strings to bytes > requires extra information, namely the encoding. but that is built-in to the unicode object. I think the idea is that a format string is ALWAYS ASCII -f there are any other characters in there, it's an invalid format anyway. Unless I mis-understand what a format string is. I think it's a string you use to represent a custom dtype -- it that right? -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
