Re: Format strings

[I removed the CC:s since we're all subscribed I think.]

El Lunes, 28. Noviembre 2005 12:55, escribi=F3:
> Plain string literals do not have an encoding attached and
> are regarded as plain byte code strings. As a result, they are
> passed through the decoding mechanism by reencoding them after
> first decding them to Unicode (using the source code encoding).

But (my last remaining question, as it seems), the default encoding of =

unicode() is "ascii" instead of "utf-8" even for this particular source fil=
e =

which specifies utf-8 encoding.
Would changing this to match the source file encoding break applications as =

well?

Note that the documentation is not really helpful about this aspect. I'd li=
ke =

to advocate for an i18n paragraph in the tutorial even, where such =

behavioural aspects are put into relation with each other, and explained in =

the concept of modern (and legacy) runtime environment concepts.

Or it'd be helpful to link to the Unicode HOWTO from the tutorial/module =

index. However, both of them contradict slightly, e.g. in the parameter =

description to unicode().

Compare:
[All of its arguments should be 8-bit strings]
vs.
[if object is a Unicode string or subclass it will return that Unicode stri=
ng]
(actually it should say "Unicode object" below, right?)

>> Why all the hassle of using u"..." instead of making it the default?
>This will happen in Python 3.0.

Ah, nice to know.

>> There is a lot of python source code I maintain, and it would simplify
>> coding a lot if this could be made the default.

> Indeed, but it potentially also breaks a lot of code since Python
> and the many extensions for it are not yet fully Unicode compatible.

I just tested -U on my applications. It seems that the 'random' module is a =

large offender. Otherwise, it seems to work ok. Some PyGame oddities but =

those are actually present without -U as well, and I'm going to look into =

fixing the library.

Is anyone coordinating the work, i.e. is there a "unicode compatibility sta=
tus =

map" or anything similar?

Josef