> > - Since we added a note to the docs that StringIO supports Unicode, we > > clearly should continue to support that, and it's a bug if it > > doesn't. > > I still believe that the docs are wrong, but nevermind. I'll fix > StringIO.py to continue to support Unicode in addition to strings > and buffer objects. It's basically only about special casing > Unicode in the .write() method. Thanks. > BTW, I was never aware of the doc changes in this area and the > test suite didn't bring up the issues either. Can you please add something to the test suite that makes sure this feature works? > > - OTOH, Unicode for cStringIO should be considered at best a feature > > request. I don't mind if cStringIO doesn't support Unicode -- it > > never has, AFAIK, so it won't break much code. I don't believe it's > > much faster than StringIO, unless you use the C API (like cPickle > > does). > > Unicode support in cStringIO would require a new implementation > since the machinery uses raw byte buffers. That's why I don't care much about it. :-) > > - Of course, when Unicode is supported, mixing ASCII and Unicode > > should be supported too. (But not necessarily mixing 8-bit strings > > containing characters in the range \200-\377, since there's no > > default encoding for this range.) > > In StringIO.py this is not much of a problem since it uses > a list of snippets. Note that this is also why StringIO.py "supported" > Unicode in the first place (and that's why I think it was more an > artifact of the implementation than true intent). But it was useful! :-) > > - Since this changed from 2.1 to 2.2, we should restore this > > capability in 2.2.1; I would say that 2.2.1 can't go out until this > > is fixed. Try to mark the checkin messages as "2.2.1 bugfix", for the 2.2.1 patch czar. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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