Re: [Python-Dev] Windows Unicode console support [Was: Bytes path support]

2014-08-28 Thread Paul Moore
On 27 August 2014 10:46, Paul Moore wrote: > If I come up with anything worth commenting on, I will do so (I assume > that comments of the form "+1 me too!" are not needed ;-)) Nevertheless, here's a "Me, too". I've just been writing some PyPI interrogation scripts, and it's absolutely awful havi

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows Unicode console support [Was: Bytes path support]

2014-08-27 Thread Paul Moore
On 27 August 2014 09:09, Nick Coghlan wrote: > There are two links to CPython issues from the project description: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1602 > http://bugs.python.org/issue17620 > > Part of the feedback on those was that as much as possible should be > made available as a third party mod

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows Unicode console support [Was: Bytes path support]

2014-08-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 August 2014 01:23, Paul Moore wrote: > On 24 August 2014 04:27, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> One of those areas is the fact that we still use the old 8-bit APIs to >> interact with the Windows console. Those are just as broken in a >> multilingual world as the other Windows 8-bit APIs, so Drekin

[Python-Dev] Windows Unicode console support [Was: Bytes path support]

2014-08-26 Thread Paul Moore
On 24 August 2014 04:27, Nick Coghlan wrote: > One of those areas is the fact that we still use the old 8-bit APIs to > interact with the Windows console. Those are just as broken in a > multilingual world as the other Windows 8-bit APIs, so Drekin came up > with a project to expose the Windows co