Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>- 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. Checked in. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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