"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote: > > ... > > IMHO, all auto-conversions should use the default encoding. The > main point here is not to confuse the user with even more magic > happening under the hood. I don't see anything confusing about having unicode-escape be the appropriate escape used for repr. Maybe we need to differentiate between lossless and lossy encodings. If the default encoding is lossless then repr could use it. Otherwise it could use unicode-escape. Anyhow, why would it be wrong for Fredrick to hard-code an encoding in repr but right for me to hard-code one in minidom? Users should not need to comb through the hundreds of modules in the library figuring out what kind of Unicode handling they should expect. It should be as centralized as possible. > If the programmer knows that he'll have to deal with Unicode > then he should make sure that the proper encoding is used > and document it that way, e.g. use unicode-escape for Minidom's > __repr__ methods. One of the major goals of our current Unicode auto-conversion "compromise" is that modules like xmllib and minidom should work with Unicode out of the box without any special enhancements. According to Guido, that's the primary reason we have Unicode auto-conversions at all. http://www.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2000-May/000173.html I'm going to fight very hard to make basic Unicode support in Python modules "just work" without a bunch of internationalization knowledge from the programmer. __repr__ is pretty basic. > > the reason for this patch was to avoid forcing everyone to deal with > > this in their own code, by providing some kind of fallback behaviour. > > That's what your patch does; I don't see a reason to change it :-) If you're still proposing that I should deal with it in a particular module's domain-specific code then the patch isn't done yet! -- Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made the modern world possible. - The Advent of the Algorithm (pending), by David Berlinski
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