Re: [Python-Dev] dir() in inspect.py ?

2012-05-20 Thread Stefano Taschini
On 21 May 2012 03:36, Guido van Rossum wrote: > [...] > > I have to agree with Christian that inspect.py is full of hacks and > heuristics that would be fine in a module that's part of a user's app > or even in a library, but stand out as brittle or outright unreliable > in a stdlib module. Basic

Re: [Python-Dev] Is it safe to assume that Python 2.7 is always built with unicode support?

2012-04-26 Thread Stefano Taschini
Understood. May I suggest that http://bugs.python.org/issue8767 be reopened, to make things clear? Stefano On 26 April 2012 16:01, wrote: > I'm looking into issue 1065986 [1], and in order to submit a patch I need >> to know whether I have to take into account the eventuality that cpyhon

[Python-Dev] Is it safe to assume that Python 2.7 is always built with unicode support?

2012-04-26 Thread Stefano Taschini
Hello every one, I'm looking into issue 1065986 [1], and in order to submit a patch I need to know whether I have to take into account the eventuality that cpyhon 2.7 be built without unicode support. As far as I can see it is no longer possible to configure cpython 2.7 with --disable-unicode as