Thomas Breuel gmail.com> writes:
>
> How can you bring up practical problems against something that hasn't been
implemented?
The PEP is simple enough that you can simulate its effect by manually computing
the resulting unicode string for a hypothetical broken filename. Several people
have alread
Paul Moore gmail.com> writes:
>
> I've yet to hear anyone claim that they would have an actual problem
> with a specific piece of code they have written.
Yep, that's the problem. Lots of theoretical problems noone has ever encountered
brought up against a PEP which resolves some actual problems
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Antoine Pitrou writes:
> > or (better for 2.x, where bytes are strings as far as most
> > programmers are concerned) as a new data type,
>
> I'm -1 on any new string-like type (for file paths or whatever
> else) with custom encoding/decoding semantics. It's the
Simon Cross gmail.com> writes:
>
> $ touch $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
> $ vi $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
> $ egrep foo $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
>
> All worked fine from my Bash shell with locale encoding set to UTF-8.
The PEP is precisely about making py3k able to better handle these files (right
now os.listdir() doesn't retu
At 16:09 + 04/27/2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>Stephen J. Turnbull xemacs.org> writes:
>>
>> I hate to break it to you, but most stages of mail processing have
>> very little to do with SMTP. In particular, processing MIME
>> attachments often requires dealing with file names.
>
>AFAIK, the fi
Antoine Pitrou writes:
> > or (better for 2.x, where bytes are strings as far as most
> > programmers are concerned) as a new data type,
>
> I'm -1 on any new string-like type (for file paths or whatever
> else) with custom encoding/decoding semantics. It's the best way to
> ruin the clean
Stephen J. Turnbull xemacs.org> writes:
>
> I hate to break it to you, but most stages of mail processing have
> very little to do with SMTP. In particular, processing MIME
> attachments often requires dealing with file names.
AFAIK, the file name is only there as an indication for the user whe
Paul Moore gmail.com> writes:
> But those
> people are also the *least* likely people to contribute on an
> English-speaking list, I guess (Sincere apologies if everyone but
> me on this list happens to actually be fluent English-speaking
> Russians )
Actually, we're all Finnish.
Regards,
Ånto
